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Naively, the poorest people are the least able to uproot and move somewhere else, so if you put a NIMBY like a coal power plant near them, everyone who can affo
by niftich 10y ago
Naively, the poorest people are the least able to uproot and move somewhere else, so if you put a NIMBY like a coal power plant near them, everyone who can afford to leave will move away, leaving only the poorest.
Furthermore, the presence of the power plant will drive property values down, placing it higher on the afforability list for people that are poor and in the market for property.
Give some time for these two factors to play out, and you'll only have poor people living next to a power plant even if it didn't always start off that way.
- maxerickson 10y agoWhich is still sort of outrageous in a quite empty place like the US. The people consuming the energy should be paying for a nice setback from the power plant. I guess a complicating factor is that access to water makes it easier to run a power plant and is also something desirable for residential areas. I'm sitting about 2 miles from a now shuttered coal plant. So is about 1/3 of the population of the county, because the towns developed by the water, before electrification.