Comment: So, someone does a study extrapolating for 40 years into the future, assuming this road becomes a 4-lane commuter highway, and then says the sky is falling.

Seriously, this is ridiculous. The Dalton Highway and TAPS were supposed to decimate the North Slope caribou herds, but they tripled in population over the next 40 years and are now endangering themselves by overgrazing their range. Could we perhaps base arguments on actual science and not on the created fears of environmentalists?