I couldn't give a toss about Brad Pitt, but I think dragging his name through the mud here is probably a little harsh. He's an actor, not an architect. He hired someone else to do this. The fact that he hired someone who failed is a pretty flimsy reason to attack him with statements like 'They believed in Brad Pitt. They believed in the dream he sold them'.
I very much doubt Brad himself had any kind of inkling that these buildings were going to be disastrous in the location they were in.
But the architects would've known, assuming they weren't diversity scholarships.
Exactly what I was going to say. Unless he failed to hire an architect, or fired one for telling him the design wasn't suitable for New Orleans' weather, it's not his fault that he delegated the task to a trained professional who should have seen this coming.
If you want to help people.. then help them. Don't use tragedy as an excuse to shove your backwards ideas of "sustainability" into everything.
'Sustainability,' by the way, for these people means.. "you keep paying all the taxes and doing all the work, and I keep doing nothing. I would like to sustain that, so you're going to have to make do with less.. because I won't."
I couldn't give a toss about Brad Pitt, but I think dragging his name through the mud here is probably a little harsh. He's an actor, not an architect. He hired someone else to do this. The fact that he hired someone who failed is a pretty flimsy reason to attack him with statements like 'They believed in Brad Pitt. They believed in the dream he sold them'.
I very much doubt Brad himself had any kind of inkling that these buildings were going to be disastrous in the location they were in. But the architects would've known, assuming they weren't diversity scholarships.
Exactly what I was going to say. Unless he failed to hire an architect, or fired one for telling him the design wasn't suitable for New Orleans' weather, it's not his fault that he delegated the task to a trained professional who should have seen this coming.
If you want to help people.. then help them. Don't use tragedy as an excuse to shove your backwards ideas of "sustainability" into everything.
'Sustainability,' by the way, for these people means.. "you keep paying all the taxes and doing all the work, and I keep doing nothing. I would like to sustain that, so you're going to have to make do with less.. because I won't."
I am guessing 'sustainable' meant recyclable construction materials and solar panels on the roof.
Which I'm sure would have all been fine if the architects knew what they were doing.