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Re:Should Rivers Have Same Legal Rights as Humans? Growing N... by smt88 on Monday August 05, 2019 @12:28AM (#20611289)
Who cares? Whether the answer were yes or no, it wouldn't have any bearing on the current discussion.

"This policy would've been bad in the past" not an argument against that policy now, especially ~180 yrs later.

Also, why is an alternate reality without Chicago a nightmare scenario?

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Re:Should Rivers Have Same Legal Rights as Humans? Growing N... by closeparen on Monday August 05, 2019 @01:47AM (#20611582)
If a policy would have prevented something we now enjoy from emerging in the past, we should at least be concerned about what it might suppress tomorrow.

Total environmental damage would be a lot worse if the populations of skyscraper cities were instead scattered across a broader, less intense sprawl. Environmental regulation can sometime be counterproductive that way.

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