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Define modern. The Louvre pyramid for example, widely decried at conception, is now a architectural monument to modernism at the heart of one of the pinnacle achievements of Renaissance work. Niemayer in Brazil? Le Corbusier? Art Deco in the 30s?
Chill with the consensus buliding.
This is temporary nonsense due to geopolitical machinations. Gasoline is more expensive in the US than it historically has been, but electricity has fallen almost 100% since 1900, despite machinery and tools becoming vastly more efficient (not to mention the exponential compounding of computing power for fixed energy use). CPI-adjusted electricity has continued to fall since 2000, from 0.172 to 0.159 $/kWh.
The Louvre pyramid is hideous. So is everything by Le Corbusier, whose autism is now less of a secret. Of course someone with sensory abnormalities and rigid thinking is going to like soul-less geometric architecture.
Brasilia, the city, is an example of how not to build cities. It has a few striking buildings, it's however not a good place to live at all.
You're insane. Gas imports from Russia are not coming back.
Large scale nuclear build-up is impossible without repurposing a bunch of European football stadiums into execution grounds and and getting rid of tens of thousands of bureaucrats, environmental activists, environmental lawyers and other people whose jobs are ensuring NOTHING EVER HAPPENS.
Europe is a hospice and will keep being so until we do the above.
.. isn't it up by 100% of percent since 1970?
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