Why civilizations fail
”…it was traced upon loose sand which was dispersed by the breath of egotism…”
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From today’s “The Knowledge” (4/10/24)
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From today’s “The Knowledge” (4/10/24)
” The UK has fewer than 30 million homes, while France, with the same population, has 37 million. Priced at a staggering £396m per mile, Britain’s disastrous – and truncated – HS2 railway will be eight times more expensive than a comparable high-speed link between Bordeaux and Tours. The planning application for a proposed tunnel under the Thames (which has now been cancelled) ran to 360,000 pages and cost £297m, merely to produce failed paperwork. That is more than twice as much as it cost in Norway to actually build the longest road tunnel in the world. The UK hasn’t built a new reservoir since 1992 or a nuclear power station since 1995. The industrial price of electricity tripled between 2004 and 2021, making British manufacturing utterly uncompetitive. In fact, Bowman says, Britain’s productivity limps so far behind that Americans could stop working each year on 22 September, “and they would still be richer than Britons working for the whole year”. “
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