Comment by wilbo
10 hours ago
I recommend reading Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. This permitting we have today is in response to very real problems of unrestricted growth in the past. It led to horrible pollution and squalor.
The pendulum has swung so far we cannot build anymore. We can't solve the problems of today because our regulations that are responding to the problems of yesterday. I'm hopeful there's a better way but I haven't seen it yet.
It’s not really a pendulum because it never really swings back.
Yet. I'm sure Rome had a bureaucracy that stifled growth and impeded action, too.
that's counter to recent news about newly-developed never-to-be-developed land all over the U.S. [0]
[0] : https://www.americanprogress.org/article/unprotecting-americ...