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Ari Schulman
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one who finds webs of crisscrossing highway overpasses austerely beautiful. (Not quite to say we should build more of them.)
I could not abide a total lack of brutalist buildings and monoliths in this world any more than I could bear an entire lifetime of southern California weather.
The key is to gaze upon the overpasses and empty 7-story mall parking garages in the middle of the night, when one can briefly harbor the fantasy of being the last man alive, just as a gloomy day permits the indulgence that the sun has been snuffed out everywhere.
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Nuclear v. fossils isn’t like shopping for the most efficient light bulb. Everyone has deontology, refuses some tech that would solve a problem but violate a deeply held principle. Assuming that opposition to nuclear power must be merely tribal or emotional will just entrench it.
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Worst case: Your story collapses and it looks like you were acting in bad faith.
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