wouldn’t it be ironic if this tree will now live on for hundreds of years, because the act of cutting it down made people care about it?
I wouldn’t be surprised if it had just uncerimoniously died a couple decades from now with no one really caring except maybe locals and some photograpby nerds.
Not sure how long sycamores live, but I’m sure we’ll now invent tree immortality gene therapy specifically for this tree.
from what I’ve seen pretty much the only newly built “pre-war” architecture comes from citizens movements. You know, the people that actually have to live and work in these buildings, that can’t flee to their island on their mega-yacht.
It only takes around 3-5% more money, not to build oppulent buildings like this, but toned down, still beautiful versions that used to be the norm before the World Wars. But they are 100x more beautiful than any of the McMansions and shoe boxes we mostly build today.
at least that would be visually cool. currently we have none of the benefits of feudalism, but all of the downsides. Like at least during the massive wealth inequality around 1900, they built shit like this:
Don’t worry, the real economic crisis is just now coming with the Fed planning on raising interest rates next year. That’s been a pretty reliable indicator that shit is about to hit the fan for the last few financial crisis. What we got after the Pandemic was just a little entrée.