Originally Posted by
SideStickMonkey
American exceptionalism.
We should be able to start with clean air and water. Like that's pretty basic.
Sorry Exxon, can't dump your waste straight into the river. Shell, gonna have to put some scrubbers on your plants to keep particulates down.
It is the cost of doing business in the US. Unless you want to have the air quality of India and China...
At some point the adults have to stand up and say I want better things for my children and not pass down to them a giant mess.
We have a place in this country called Cancer Alley and the best we can do is shrug. Maybe if they had worked harder, they could afford health care that's going to treat them when they get cancer. Thank you for your sacrifice to building that 3rd home in Aspen for the C-Suite.