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"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now only counting costs to businesses when considering regulation on key pollutants, internal documents show, rather than considering human lives saved by such caps."

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[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today 5 points 59 minutes ago

Conservatives did this. May they suffer the worst effects of it for the remainder of their valueless lives.

[-] r1veRRR@feddit.org 4 points 1 hour ago

Don't Lives Lost also impose costs and lost revenue on businesses? Even from a business standpoint, killing a bunch of people is bad for business.

[-] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 2 points 33 minutes ago

Capitalism simply assumes unlimited resources. Labor is a resource.

[-] Phantom_Feline17@lemmy.zip 18 points 5 hours ago

Holy shit. I've seen Saturday morning cartoon villains who were more subtle than this.

[-] renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 8 points 4 hours ago

Good job everyone.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 11 points 6 hours ago

The quiet part loud... Holy fuck.

[-] Arancello@aussie.zone 13 points 8 hours ago

its just evil

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 18 points 9 hours ago
[-] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 24 points 11 hours ago

When will they realize that money is useless when you're dead?

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago

Silly PlainDave, Bob Kraft and Ed Sheeran can't die.
Why look at all their life experience so far.

[-] vapordays@leminal.space 7 points 9 hours ago

"Basic Economics"

[-] Spiv@lemmy.world 21 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

So it's the Corporate Cash Protection Agency now?

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago

Seriously. Human lives or not, how is not considering pollution protecting the environment? Humans are not the only living things in the environment.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago

billionaires have their bunkers, they dont' care about what fresh hell they create on the surface.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Yeah but before that they have their private islands and valleys that they keep pristine so they and only they can go do stuff in it. They turn into environmentalists overnight when talking about the land they play in. Mostly shooting animals, but some light atving also.

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

The true tragedy of the commons.

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 43 points 15 hours ago

So they're going to include the costs my business has to pay for increased health and life insurance premiums?

[-] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago

Which, should be noted, is still a significant downgrade.

[-] Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 105 points 17 hours ago

it's going to take fucking decades to even begin to unfuck this place...

[-] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 50 points 17 hours ago

It’s going to take a revolution and probably the break up of the US into individual countries

[-] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

So, the thing the tech oligarchs said they are intentionally destroying the country to do?

[-] CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social 3 points 4 hours ago

We could round up conservatives and put them in camps instead, if that's more palatable for you.

[-] Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 24 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

yea, see how well texafloribamassippigia does on their own

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 14 hours ago

Tbh I do not want that country as a neighbor

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 7 points 15 hours ago

It would be really funny in a heartless way to see all the red states collapse. Big "I fucking told you so" opportunity.

Unfortunately, it would take a long time and a lot of innocent people would die. Also they'd probably start wars

[-] 13igTyme@piefed.social 7 points 11 hours ago

Blue states just need to stop giving money to the federal government and the red states will very quickly get back in line.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

How do you suppose that would work? Functionally?

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 3 points 9 hours ago

I agree with the first part, but you are wrong that they just fall in line.

[-] 13igTyme@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago

Cut off all the money and red states will buckle.

[-] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago

Someone is writing upthe horror movie script as we speak

[-] Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 10 points 16 hours ago

i'd be impressed if any fictional horror story ever even came close to how horrifying real life is

[-] KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org 10 points 15 hours ago

Trump wants Americans to die so Russian scum can move in.

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