Originally posted by ilikecomics
Is superfund like crowd sourcing or something different ?
Superfund sites are the list of contaminated locations usually the result of historical industry that require cleaning up before the land can be used for agriculture or residential purposes. Mostly the result of now defunct chemical companies dumping waste products before their adverse effects on human health were known or before regulations were implemented to stop the environmental impacts caused by those practices. I believe we discussed them briefly when talking about Capitalism and regulations when you argued that there didn't need to be legislation to force companies into more ethical practices and I used superfund sites as an example of why government enforced regulations were necessary.
Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Superfund sites are the list of contaminated locations usually the result of historical industry that require cleaning up before the land can be used for agriculture or residential purposes. Mostly the result of now defunct chemical companies dumping waste products before their adverse effects on human health were known or before regulations were implemented to stop the environmental impacts caused by those practices. I believe we discussed them briefly when talking about Capitalism and regulations when you argued that there didn't need to be legislation to force companies into more ethical practices and I used superfund sites as an example of why government enforced regulations were necessary.
I think you sent a two part YouTube video with a guy that had a Scottish accent ?
Originally posted by ilikecomics
Explain why stealing is legitimate then.
Sorry, if you want to do your "taxation is theft!" rant yet again, ziggy, go pull up one or the various threads already in existence.
This is about Biden's massive and historic infrastructure that will be creating MASSIVE amounts of jobs for Americans, which scares you.
Originally posted by ilikecomics
Why couldn't something like that be solved with crowd funding like boyan slat ?
It probably could help. As could charity involvement. I would hazard a guess that there are or have been examples of both but I haven't checked if there are or were.
There may also be private investment from companies that have long since bought over or merged with the old companies that were responsible for the contaminated sites. Again, though, I haven't checked.
Originally posted by jaden_2.0
It probably could help. As could charity involvement. I would hazard a guess that there are or have been examples of both but I haven't checked if there are or were.There may also be private investment from companies that have long since bought over or merged with the old companies that were responsible for the contaminated sites. Again, though, I haven't checked.
I think anything paid for with taxes automatically says the people don't want it, otherwise they'd go through free market channels.
But if you steal a third of people's wages it's harder for them to contribute to crowd sourcing.
Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Yes the people don't want uncontaminated land etc. That's why the people of Flint, Michigan love slurping up that poisonous water.I'm sure we could crowd source roads, dams and electricity pylons while we're at it.
They don't and that's why people like Eddie vedder giving them bottled water did way more than anyone in the flint government.
Boyan slat did it and has cleaned up millions of tons of plastic. So yeah why couldn't we crowd source those things ?