The obvious answer on the infrastructure front would seem to be bridges and waterways (locks/etc).
Plenty of other infrastructure is sub-par (roads, mass transit) but when they fail it tends to be in non-catastrophic ways which can be easily detoured around.
Have you read Shellenberger's recent book? I wanted to like it, but its tone turned me off. The only thing I really took from it were some examples of contradictions in standard environmentalist thinking.
The obvious answer on the infrastructure front would seem to be bridges and waterways (locks/etc).
Plenty of other infrastructure is sub-par (roads, mass transit) but when they fail it tends to be in non-catastrophic ways which can be easily detoured around.
Have you read Shellenberger's recent book? I wanted to like it, but its tone turned me off. The only thing I really took from it were some examples of contradictions in standard environmentalist thinking.