Re:Firefighting foam leaves toxic legacy in Californians’ dr...
by gurumeditations on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @03:29PM
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That’s like saying poisoning is good for people because the sicker people are, the more hospitals and doctors you’ll need. The money has to come from somewhere. There is no profit in cleaning up messes, just loss reduction. The money, trillions of dollars just for climate change alone, has to come from somewhere. If past generations had not been so greedy, that money would be in our pockets. Instead, it will be burned because we have to clean up the unfathomable messes older people have created.
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Re:Firefighting foam leaves toxic legacy in Californians’ dr...
by ddingus on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @05:16PM
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No, it is saying that it is worth it to clean up after ignorance and folly.
And there are eventually gains to be had.
Those clean areas are worth more, the money paid to labor means demand, growth, etc...
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Re:Firefighting foam leaves toxic legacy in Californians’ dr...
by ddingus on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @05:33PM
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We can still do those things.
Perhaps we need to value things differently.
Instead of what could have been, we can and need to focus on what can be.
Longer term, that is the better play.
We all live here and are going to do that for a very long time yet.
It is worth it to make sure living here makes sense, period.