James Surowiecki
@JamesSurowiecki
Author of The Wisdom of Crowds. Editor at The Yale Review. Contributing writer for The Atlantic. I wrote The Financial Page for The New Yorker.
Joined February 2013
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This is the core argument against permitting reform: If we make it easier to build stuff, some bad stuff will be built, therefore we should make it hard to build anything.
It's a recipe for stasis, higher prices, and fewer clean-energy projects.
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Senate is reconvening at noon on Veterans Day to fast-track data centers next to military battlefields, ICE gulags, the bulldozing of Hains Point, the death of the Endangered Species Act, and boy, so, so, so many fossil-fueled hyperscalers.
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