Interesting and informative read
I do hope though, regarding your second point, that we see a shift in trend from making urban areas more developed and more ‘urban’ to focusing on uplifting and growing communities in far flung and remote corners of our countries (carbon emmissions that this will obviously lead to notwithstanding)
If this doesn’t happen, you run the risk of creating a situation like what we have now in South Africa: 16000+ private and public reserves and parks, vast majority of which cater to foreign clientelle with heavier buying power, where the line between Pristine Eden and ravaged wasteland is the width of the entrance gate and if you are unlucky enough to live outside the fenced area, you do not have running water, sturdy shelter or even a single book you can use to read about the animals you can find a few meters inside
If you are desperate enough to try and poach inside the reserve, you will have the hammer of god almighty come crashing down on you if caught, but all you’ll hear from reserve management if a dangerous animal escapes and kills your livestock or relatives is a limp-wristed “whoopsy”
I know I’m going off-track a bit here, but it cannot be emphasized enough how fatal the proliferation of fortress conservation and the idea of nature preservation for the elites really is