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> If it was a trivial solution it'd have already been done I mean, the Romans did it, and it was a huge infrastructure project for a government unusually good
by mananaysiempre 2y ago
> If it was a trivial solution it'd have already been done
I mean, the Romans did it, and it was a huge infrastructure project for a government unusually good at them. It’s fair to ask if the particular government in question just can’t do things on that scale.
- piva00 2y agoThe world is orders of magnitude more complex than when the Roman Empire was around. They didn't have to care about environmental destruction with their projects to the level we need to care, even at its peak the whole Roman Empire population spanning a few continents (Europe, Africa, and Asia) wasn't much more than population of just California. Yeah, the Romans did it, we don't live in Roman Empire times though.