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Back when the danger was natural and physical - how much defeatism was there in Holland about building the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works https://en.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
Back when the danger was natural and physical - how much defeatism was there in Holland about building the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works ?
Why the difference?
- wolvoleo 9mo agoThose were different times. Right now Holland has been governed by oligarchs for the last 30 years. The country is unrecognisable. Also, making something like that would be unthinkable in this day and age of safety and environmental red tape. The same way we have not reclaimed any land in like forever. In fact some of it has been sunk again under pressure from the belgians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertogin_Hedwigepolder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertogin_Hedwigepolder