Perhaps he wouldn't. But that didn't mean it wasn't at least worth something of an attempt. There wouldn't be anything to recover, if no one went to the effort of seeing just what was buried underneath the rubble. Yes, it would be understandable that it would hardly be a particularly lovely task, but surely someone had to realize that it would need to be done sooner or later. The city wasn't about to clean itself.

"Then perhaps more people should be looking for it."