[discoursism]

This is silly. We do not know that the overall construction methodology had anything to do with the bridge's collapse. Does the Nipigon River Bridge's collapse show how cable-stayed bridges can go wrong?

The author is a history professor, not an engineer, and it shows with the faffery about metonyms of ecological development in South Florida near the end. If the issue here was with the ABC methodology (as opposed to a misapplication of it), we'll soon learn, but I doubt it. In the mean time, the only person who stands to gain from this FUD is the author.

[trisimix]

I agree the author is being much too hasty to jump to conclusions. At its core this is essentially a fear piece for something that hasn’t been proven to have done anything yet.