There is a book called Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire.
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Already read it. Thank you very much.
You never saw my reply to your previous dropping name of his book, Corky actually claims Andersen was in Fantasyland; I doubt you read it or you'd understand that blamed Boomers.
His critique of "Do your own thing / pursue your own truth." is interesting and popularized personal freedom, but the book claims it legitimized in your mind that subjective experience supersedes empirical reality.
ie you're the one in Fantasyland.
Here's some of reading you're missing out on ....
The injury alleged by the Sierra Club will be incurred entirely by reason of the change in the uses to which Mineral King will be put, and the attendant change in the aesthetics and ecology of the area. Thus, in referring to the road to be built through Sequoia National Park, the complaint alleged that the development "would destroy or otherwise adversely affect the scenery, natural and historic objects and wildlife of the park, and would impair the enjoyment of the park for future generations." We do not question that this type of harm may amount to an "injury in fact" sufficient to lay the basis for standing under 10 of the APA. Aesthetic and environmental wellbeing, like economic wellbeing, are important ingredients of the quality of life in our society, and the fact that particular environmental interests are shared by the many, rather than the few, does not make them less deserving of legal protection through the judicial process.
Sierra Club v. Morton, 405 U. S 1972
What damage did that do to the ability to develop a railroad, a building, a park, a datacenter or a house?
But I wanted to limit my reply to the thread topic, i.e., public works projects.
You can't do it intelligently without understanding the history of how you got here. I see many posts proposing/blaming policies and people, that will take us back to the same place to why it changed to what it is today.
This is known as a Chestertons fence.
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