In Monash University in Melbourne’s Engineering Garden stands a sobering monument: twisted fragments from the wreckage of the Westgate Bridge collapse in 1970, one of the world’s worst bridge collapses. The tortured chunks of metal are meant to remind engineering students of the devastating consequences if they screw up.
A great many politicians and activists could benefit from the same reminder. The same people who witter about “the precautionary principle” when they’re trying to stop a mining development, throw caution to the winds when it comes to their green-left monomanias.
It’s all very easy to gaily skip off down the primrose path of forcing everyone to adopt electric cars. Much harder to do the hard thinking about what all the consequences will be.
It all comes tumbling down.