It baffles my mind that other first world countries can do this and we can’t.
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The Iron Law of Megaprojects.
The Iron Law, coined by Oxford Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, says that “megaprojects” — which cost billions of dollars, take years to complete, and are socially transformative — reliably come in over budget, over time, over and over…
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Other first world countries implies that the US is still in that group. We’ve been working our way out of that group since the 1980s.
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Like all complicated messes it is complicated. The USA’s only significant national push towards “environmental protection” was under Richard Nixon, who forced the GOP into alignment with his Environmental Protection Act. After that the GOP and significant numbers of Dems went into reverse and no national environmental protection policy could be established. Result? Environmental Impact Reports became the only tool available to force policy negotiation, and so became monstrous and with horrifically stupid side effects. Add on to that that the USA failed to establish infrastructural corridors for transport and energy when land was cheap and you have our current disaster.
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