Day 1,761: underpinning, subside, inducement, retrofit
Should homeowners who had no idea they were at risk have to pay for, say, concrete underpinning for a subsiding house?
Owners will need inducements to spend big sums retrofitting their homes to pollute less, which benefits everyone.
Artwork of the day
The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge
Thomas ColeDate:1829Style:RomanticismGenre:landscapeMedia:oilLocation:Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USDimensions:90.8 x 121.3 cm
Word of the day
underpinning: support, strength, or the basic structure of something:
subside: (of a condition) to become less strong, or (of an activity or disagreement) to become less violent : If a building, land, or water subsides, it goes down to a lower level:
inducement: an act or a thing that is intended to make something happen or to persuade someone to do something:
retrofit: to provide a machine with a part, or a place with equipment, that it did not originally have when it was built:
Quote of the day
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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