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Eh, you kill the resource extraction industries, and all you're going to have left will be the homesteaders and some tourist trade. It'll look like the coast o
by douche 11y ago
Eh, you kill the resource extraction industries, and all you're going to have left will be the homesteaders and some tourist trade. It'll look like the coast of Maine, at best.
People aren't going to freeze to death up there if there isn't free land or easy money.
- gnarbarian 11y agoIt'll be like Maine except we will have triple the cost of living. Anchorage will look like Detroit and the bush will look like rural mongolia 100 years ago. Maybe we'll even have to run the iditarod for real again to try and get vaccines/food/supplies to nome.
- zardo 11y agoI grew up in the bush. Without support from the government, it would be amazing if they did that well. They don't have the culture and population to live off the land completely again. It would be the apocalypse out there.