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Honestly, voter backlash occurs for every reason. Build more homes? Backlash. Build more wind? Backlash. Build more solar? Backlash. Build more geothermal? Back
by arjie 4mo ago
Honestly, voter backlash occurs for every reason. Build more homes? Backlash. Build more wind? Backlash. Build more solar? Backlash. Build more geothermal? Backlash. Build more urban subway? Backlash. Build high-speed rail? Backlash. What I can conclude from this is that what is right to do and what voter backlash occurs in is orthogonal. I think it is right that we build all these things and more nuclear power, and more residential super towers, and more datacenters, and the other things for the same reason we climb the mountains, fly the Atlantic, and Rice plays Texas.
- amanaplanacanal 4mo agoHow does a new datacenter help the voters? All they see is that their electricity prices are going to go up.
- anthonypasq 4mo agowhy do we give a shit what voters think should happen on someone else's property again?
- recursive 4mo agoBecause "we" want to get elected?
- AngryData 4mo agoBecause what your neighbors do on their property effects you on your property. That is why zoning and permitting exists.
- anthonypasq 4mo agodefending the existing zoning and permitting regime will get your no where with me unfortunately. if we dismantled local control of those 2 things the majority of this countries problems would go away.
- downrightmike 4mo agoTheir taxes and cost of living goes up, oh wait
- staticshock 4mo agoAgreed. Change makes people uncomfortable. The nature of the change doesn't matter; the transition itself is the root of the discomfort. When things are stagnant, we gradually optimize our lives towards a low energy state and overfit to our exact circumstances. When a change in circumstances reveals past optimizations to be wasted work, it kick-starts the four stages of grief over the loss of that low energy state.