re: #45 lawhawk

Louisiana, which has a cancer cluster so vast, it’s called Cancer Alley, thanks to the petrochemical industry that has spent decades polluting the air, ground, and water - mostly in communities of color and poor folks who can’t afford to move anywhere else.

Of course local officials want to stop the EPA from holding those companies accountable and want to loosen restrictions.

You can always find more people to do those jobs and live in those areas. To them, people are replaceable. They fear that once you chase businesses out of the area with more regulation and accountability for the damage they’ve inflicted, they aint never coming back. That’s the fear, even though the regulations would make it safer for people to live in the state and downwind/downstream.

Mind you, all these are the not so hidden costs of the oil industry and petrochemicals.

Capitalism, standing next to a giant knob labelled “Death,” slowing turning it from “just passively cause people to die to make more money” to “actively kill people to make more money” while looking for signs somebody’s going to stop them.