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cassidytheVword t1_j2ajfb2 wrote

Im sure the free market would have somehow fixed this. . . .right guys.

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AftyOfTheUK t1_j2apdf6 wrote

Replying to cassidytheVword (#1,195,591)

What does this have to do with free market economies? I think maybe you misunderstand what a free market economy is.R

egulations like this are not incompatible with a free market... A free market is simply something where people or organizations compete to supply goods and services and prices are determined by a combination of the sellers and buyers desires.

It doesn't suddenly stop being a free market if government regulates that you can't take a dump on your neighbours property. That would still be a free market.

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vineyardmike t1_j2aronl wrote

>Fifty years ago, Congress voted to override President Richard Nixon’s veto of the Clean Water Act. It has proved to be one of the most transformative environmental laws ever enacted.

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No-Gear-6423 t1_j2asgkw wrote

Replying to AftyOfTheUK (#1,197,057)

The comment you are replying to is responding to an argument often brought up by conservative talking heads and libertarian weirdos on the internet. Obviously regulation is compatible with a free market.

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peter-doubt t1_j2asm8e wrote

The pilings of NY piers are actually rotting away faster now than in the 70s... There's more ship worms chewing away at them

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T00luser t1_j2ayy6c wrote

Que the dynamite-flinging Australians.

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vsgr t1_j2b1b03 wrote

Once an Open Sewer, New York Harbor Now Teems With Life. Thank the Clean Water Act.

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CrestedBonedog t1_j2b5yn9 wrote

Same with the Cuyahoga River by me. You can fish it and kayak on it all the way through Cleveland now.

Only the Gorge Dam is left, once removal of it and the contaminated sediment is completed over the next five years the river should have a completely unimpeded flow again like it did long ago.

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RedLeader7 t1_j2bap3i wrote

I hope Nestle doesn’t hear about this

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atothez t1_j2ctw2q wrote

Replying to HellStoneBats (#1,217,025)

IIRC it’s a reference to the start of Crocodile Dundee II, where our protagonist is blowing up and netting fish on the East river. The scene is to establish that he has settled into his new home in New York city. I do not recommend the film.

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CommonConfusables t1_j2da04m wrote

Replying to cfsed_98 (#1,204,969)

It goes back further, but the flashy evil that he is the face of uses Reagan as a blueprint. Consider Reagan the face of a team of baddies. Responsible but nor the sole blame.

His wife’s anti-drug campaigns did some pretty heavy damage on society by way of stereotyping and instilling fear.

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Pktur3 t1_j2dkpsc wrote

Replying to cfsed_98 (#1,204,969)

Reagan’s term was transformative when there were assumed the leaders acted with the public in interest. Nixon’s term was the framework for subversive actions against political opponents. Trump’s term was exercising the loopholes created during Reagan and subversive actions learned during Nixon to establish political authoritarianism.

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joebojax t1_j2dln3d wrote

the one trump used as toilet paper?

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Alanjaow t1_j2eb0hx wrote

I mean, technically it was teeming with life when it was a sewer too. It just wasn't the healthy kind!

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Max_E_Mas t1_j2ekidx wrote

This shows its possible to reverse what we had done. At least in the oceans. Wr can keep the oceans alive and keep our ecosystem. We just need to have people who give a damn

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