Comment on The amount of ghost towns in the US and elsewhere will skyrocket in our lifetimes and become a normalized thing

hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

This is actually fairly normal through human history. Oasies dry up, mines run out, rivers change, easily fortified locations prove later impractical, trade routes move due to conflict or geography. When it happens within your lifetime, it triggers the cognitive bias of loss aversion. You feel it personally. When it happens a century or two before, it’s a curiosity.

I’ve spent a lot of time in dying or ghost towns, and no one owes any human settlement the right to exist in perpetuity. If humans vanished tomorrow, who would mourn your or my hometown?

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