What if the problems we face today are harder than the problems people faced from before roughly 1980?
What if we're comparing apples to oranges when we say people in the past had more ambition? People would build an entire suburb in the 1950s without filing an Environmental Report to the EPA because didn't even exist. (An environmental report for those who do not know is a massive piece of legal documentation that shows how a prospective development will effect the natural landscape.)
Perhaps Singapore is building gleaming skyscrapers because they've taken the baton from us and have no "baggage" per se.
What if we're comparing apples to oranges when we say people in the past had more ambition? People would build an entire suburb in the 1950s without filing an Environmental Report to the EPA because didn't even exist. (An environmental report for those who do not know is a massive piece of legal documentation that shows how a prospective development will effect the natural landscape.)
Perhaps Singapore is building gleaming skyscrapers because they've taken the baton from us and have no "baggage" per se.