Ignorance is Dissed Vol. 1

From an Economist article detailing the crumbling American infrastructure:

If America does not act, says Robert Yaro of the Regional Plan Association (RPA), a body that plans for the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut region, it will have the infrastructure of a third-world country within a few decades. Economic growth will be constricted, and the quality of life will be diminished.

(italics mine, for emphasis)

I bet you didn't know that. I for fuck sure didn't.

The rest of the article teeters between nyah-nyah British alarmism over the hypothetical American infrastructure collapse and a startlingly honest take on a country that must now deal with the fallout of its second major natural disaster in three years (only this time around white people will have to care, because their pocketbooks will be affected). We're a country that builds to bridges to nowhere in Alaska while bridges in Minnesota collapse.

This is just the kind of story that I feel like isn't getting any run in American media, either print or otherwise. It's really a shame. Though, to the credit of American journalism, the San Diego local morning news today was running a story on the North Pole ice melting just today. So I guess that's something.