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Joined: Thu November 21, 2013 10:01 pm Posts: 1847
What a world we live in where a billion dollars can be raised in a matter of days to rebuild an old church, yet children still go hungry and die from curable diseases every day. I’m sure that’s exactly what Jesus would have wanted.
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The Seine is already flooding more often and reaching ever-greater heights, thanks to climate change. Last year it came close to threatening the Louvre.
Maybe don’t spend all that money rebuilding your cultural icon on an island.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 9:55 pm Posts: 13819 Location: An office full of assholes
McParadigm wrote:
The Seine is already flooding more often and reaching ever-greater heights, thanks to climate change. Last year it came close to threatening the Louvre.
Maybe don’t spend all that money rebuilding your cultural icon on an island.
why are they mutually exclusive? they can rebuild and do something about the flooding seine.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 9:55 pm Posts: 13819 Location: An office full of assholes
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
I mean, don't all rivers overflow their banks?
at some point yes. but the thames, tiber, and seine all overflowed them with predictability once a year. yet they still built significant buildings on or near the rivers. hell, rome's first hospital was literally built on a tiny island on the tiber.
The Seine is already flooding more often and reaching ever-greater heights, thanks to climate change. Last year it came close to threatening the Louvre.
Maybe don’t spend all that money rebuilding your cultural icon on an island.
why are they mutually exclusive? they can rebuild and do something about the flooding seine.
Mitigating the effects of climate change is completely missing the point.
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“People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And one needs more than mere opinions to erect a Gothic cathedral. Our pained nostalgia is not only at the damaged monumental art, but the monument to a humanity once capable of producing such marvels. The thought someone would start a monumental project whose fruit only their grandchild would ever see is inconceivable to us now."
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