This is What I Want to Do
Mar. 5th, 2008 02:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythInfrastructure for the Future We Want over at Worldchanging.
That's the kind of work I want to do. That's what I went back to school to learn how to do. And we need to do it soon. The US infrastructure needs about $1.6 trillion in repairs and upgrades, and that's just using the most conventional estimates by people like the American Society of Civil Engineers. I suspect a lot of the stuff they suggest is probably not a good idea, like more highways, or can be done better and newer. That's a lot of money.
About half the amount we're spending on the war in Iraq. Just for the US.
Which is also just about 1000 times more than George Bush promised us it'd cost when he started his war.
That's the kind of work I want to do. That's what I went back to school to learn how to do. And we need to do it soon. The US infrastructure needs about $1.6 trillion in repairs and upgrades, and that's just using the most conventional estimates by people like the American Society of Civil Engineers. I suspect a lot of the stuff they suggest is probably not a good idea, like more highways, or can be done better and newer. That's a lot of money.
About half the amount we're spending on the war in Iraq. Just for the US.
Which is also just about 1000 times more than George Bush promised us it'd cost when he started his war.
