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Visiting the Hoover Dam feels to me like visiting a rift into an alternate timeline—one in which we attempt enormous, absurd, starry-eyed projects… and achieve them, under budget and years ahead of schedule! I’d love to better understand the forces which made that possible.
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Does anybody WANT to build a Hoover Dam equivalent today? I can’t think of a single construction project that is at all exciting.
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The “Great Green Wall” seems tied in with that “Delay climate change for just $300B” article going around. Basically: productive soil holds much carbon. Counter: that “plant 10^11 trees” paper fell apart under scrutiny.
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More to the point, I think any of Disney, Pixar, or Marvel’s abilities to crank out hit after hit are each individually more impressive and desirable than the Hoover Dam.
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