Off the port of Palma de Mallorca, on "Calle de Can Formiguera", in Palma de Mallorca, in Spain's "Islas Baleares".
Back on March 2012, I was amazed how seamless everything appeared on the sleepy island.
A good study of sustainability, if any. Across the city, so much of the modern infrastructure is hidden; the door to left of the arch is a (narrow) car garage, the door to the right is another passage, power lines are hidden away, and solid waste is taken away in via a network of tubes, to be incinerated...
Away from modern architecture, it was easy it is to optimize energy flows across ancient architecture layouts.
Google Streetview:
https://goo.gl/maps/rjrHj1njWvZPEeN6A
The more we progress, the greater the risk of a devolution into a #DimAge Already, our own #technology is growing too complex for us to understand or manage, and scales up faster than our own understanding can keep up.
In todays’ world, transport choke points are unavoidable, a feature of an unsustainable, #globalized world.
The #RedSea passage #BabElMandab is one of those, critical because of the #MiddleEast's central importance to the world's #EnergyEconomy
Agree to the rich world's desired outcome, before building the systems that made it rich? You get one form #CarbonColonialism
Then again, too much of a system focus, you get the excesses of the gilded age.
Better a #FailedState than a crazy kingdom.
A failed state is like a broken clock; it is broken, but may still be right twice day. On the other hand, a crazy kingdom is like an off clock; if it is off by 5%, it is only right once every 10 days.
...In addition, in a failed state, you and your community stand a chance to grow and succeed; the crazy king can't easily reach you, unlike in our modern anarcho-tyranny
