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Climate change means the US must start building big things again
- harimau777 7y agoI wish that thinkers in this area would find some middle ground between NIMBYism and "screw your property values". Before we criticize existing homeowners for rejecting reasonable compromises, I think that we need to actually offer them reasonable compromises. It seems to me that there's a huge difference between construction that an architect designed to be aesthetically pleasing, interesting, and compatible with the existing environment and just building some soulless concrete or glass & steel structure.
- rayiner 7y agohttps://cdn.technologyreview.com/i/images/ap19141688066851-web.jpg?sw=1918&cx=0&cy=5&cw=3000&ch=2031 https://cdn.technologyreview.com/i/images/ap19141688066851-w... I love that picture. It’s a testament to California’s California-ness. Thinking it’s Europe, but realizing it’s America, with a monument to failure looming over the very people who voted against HSR.
- foolzcrow 7y agoWhen was the climate unchanging?