livinincali: All environmental regulations can be seen as artificial constraints on growth. What good is economic growth if we make the Earth (or certain parts of it) inhospitable to humans?
BTW- I’d much rather live a quarter mile from a nuclear power plant than from a coal mine, coal power plant, or frack field. Why? Because I understand science and risk.
Problem with this country is lack of education and opportunities for education. People don’t understand risk. People think that solar is some sort of grand conspiracy to control them. And Trump, by hiring someone who’s anti-public education for the Department of Ed, will actually make this shituation worse.
You’ll have people allowed to opt out of a scientifically rigorous education for their kids, in favor of Jeebus-jumper Bible-thumper larnin’, and the cycle will continue.
