This @kimmelman story is a must-read.
"A process of participatory planning, rightly evolved to represent interests other than government technocrats and wealthy developers, has also created a culture of Nimby-ism that thwarts even modest proposals."
nytimes.com/2021/12/02/us/…
"A process of participatory planning, rightly evolved to represent interests other than government technocrats and wealthy developers, has also created a culture of Nimby-ism that thwarts even modest proposals."
nytimes.com/2021/12/02/us/…
"Our conversations seem increasingly cramped, mean and small. Is our society just too frayed to come together around basic material needs?"
In an age of growing and combining climate, ecological and economic risks, the inability to most fast and build big is effectively the same thing as an inability to act at all.
Process designed for once-good reasons becomes a massive vulnerability in its own right.
Process designed for once-good reasons becomes a massive vulnerability in its own right.
"A nation steeped in individual liberty and Manifest Destiny is not accustomed to thinking about prevention or retreating from places too unsafe to occupy or too costly to save."
There's another problem.
The kind of slow, incremental action process often produces often doesn't lay the ground for later, bigger changes.
It often involves a form of triangulation—protecting current priorities and plans from an urgent need to change.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/brittleness-…
The kind of slow, incremental action process often produces often doesn't lay the ground for later, bigger changes.
It often involves a form of triangulation—protecting current priorities and plans from an urgent need to change.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/brittleness-…
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