Why is it that people insist on building, rebuilding, and rebuilding again in areas where they are almost certain to get knocked down after a sufficiently long (yet still human-scale) length of time?
Let's build on this unstable clay hillside. Sure, people who've built here before have repeatedly died due to mudslides, but...
Let's build in this hurricane corridor. Sure, the only reason there is space now is that the previous houses got tossed into some nearby ocean, but...
Darn, our city got shaken to pieces in an earthquake. Let's invest in rebuilding everything in the exact same region. Yeah, there'll be another quake, and worse, but...
Aw heck, this river system flooded again. Well, hundredth time's the charm, right? Let's build back in the floodplain. Sure, it might make sense not to do the same thing again, but...
What is this, a mass response to global overpopulation? "Hey, if we keep trying to live in places like this, eventually the population may go down!" And if so, why do folks in these regions keep producing brand-new children at the same time?
On longer drives when I'm really riding the guages, I've managed to average slightly over 80mpg over more than an hour in my 2000 Honda Insight. And that's this year, not when it was new.
I'll admit that's way better than 'city' driving, when it drops down to 55-60 mpg when I'm going up hills, stopping, going down hills, stopping, and never getting to keep any decent kinetic energy. Still, this didn't require any overnight charging or multi-grand modifications.
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Why is it that people insist on building, rebuilding, and rebuilding again in areas where they are almost certain to get knocked down after a sufficiently long (yet still human-scale) length of time? Let's build on this unstable clay hillside. Sure, people who've built here before have repeatedly died due to mudslides, but... Let's build in this hurricane corridor. Sure, the only reason there is space now is that the previous houses got tossed into some nearby ocean, but... Darn, our city got shaken to pieces in an earthquake. Let's invest in rebuilding everything in the exact same region. Yeah, there'll be another quake, and worse, but... Aw heck, this river system flooded again. Well, hundredth time's the charm, right? Let's build back in the floodplain. Sure, it might make sense not to do the same thing again, but... What is this, a mass response to global overpopulation? "Hey, if we keep trying to live in places like this, eventually the population may go down!" And if so, why do folks in these regions keep producing brand-new children at the same time?
On longer drives when I'm really riding the guages, I've managed to average slightly over 80mpg over more than an hour in my 2000 Honda Insight. And that's this year, not when it was new. I'll admit that's way better than 'city' driving, when it drops down to 55-60 mpg when I'm going up hills, stopping, going down hills, stopping, and never getting to keep any decent kinetic energy. Still, this didn't require any overnight charging or multi-grand modifications.