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It's also that the infrastructure of the US is very young. In Europe a 100 year old building is shockingly common. And they are still in use. Mostly because eve
by hnaccount_rng 3y ago
It's also that the infrastructure of the US is very young. In Europe a 100 year old building is shockingly common. And they are still in use. Mostly because even back then (some) housing was already build in a lasting manner. And not being able/willing to tear them down gives you a baselevel of sustainability.
The other thing is that we used up most of "our" fossil energy reserves decades ago and what we want to burn today requires imports, which requires a reasonably stable world economy, a reasonably strong geopolitical position and ... well ... even the last conservative governments have woken up, that those assumptions may not be true any longer