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I urge you to pick up and read Desert Solitaire[0] and reconsider your 'wasteland' statement.

Benefit/cost might be there, but for a project costing 22B it would be sensible to study and quantify.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Solitaire

As depressing as it is, better destroying that env than the more rich env

IMO as a planet we should try to move beyond that sort of colonialism. Yes the UK is a richer country, but that doesn't make their ecosystem inherently more valuable.

I would say more diverse because the weather allows it

One could argue that the environment in UK is already destroyed, why protect that instead of something that is still relatively untouched?

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