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Our tolerance for deaths during construction was higher, though.

I haven't researched it in depth but I gather a much larger issue is the use and abuse of environmental law by the minority who don't want the projects done

There's a book review about this that suggests it is exactly this abuse of the courts to block governments https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-public-cit...

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