Posted by Edd in KY on January 30, 2014 at 10:35:26 from (98.23.56.220):
In Reply to: Coal mines posted by TGIN on January 29, 2014 at 19:05:36:
Remember cars and trucks that belched out emissions and got 7 MPG? (1975) Remember when the River in Cleveland was so full of pollution that it caught on fire?(1967) Remember when the coal suet rained out of the sky on the school playground?(1955) Remember when 2000 men a year died in the coal mines? (1943) vs 42 last year. Business will always say it can't be done.
I have been a business man all my life and I still am, but industry only moves when forced to. If we think back, we have seen this play out before.
We have needed laws to force businesses to be good citizens and find ways to do the proper and ethical thing and quit pouring poison into our land, and putting peoples lives ar risk.
The challenge is that the government regulators need balance, they can not go crazy, they must know when to quit raising the bar beyond reality. Some of the zealots today seemed to have lost their balance, but in retrospect maybe that was always true.
None of us want to go back to those polluted days, any more than we would want the farmer next door to thoughtlessly let his weed spray drift over and kill our trees and our garden, and our pets.
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