Using transport of information as exemplary strikes me as such extreme cherry-picking as to be disingenuous. It's relatively trivial to move data wirelessly.

Using transport of information as exemplary strikes me as such extreme cherry-picking as to be disingenuous. It's relatively trivial to move data wirelessly. Physical infrastructure like housing, roads, bridges, are where the real challenges lie. Cement production alone is a huge co2 problem. Even if all the vehicles of the future are EVs, there's a huge amount of resources put into manufacturing, delivering, sheltering, and operating those per-capita. Despite its vast HSR network, China has still exceeded US car sales every year since 2009 [0]. [0] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/global-car-sales-by-key-markets-2005-2020 https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/global-car-sa...