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Civil rights and pollution have almost nothing in common, especially when we're talking about an oppressive autocracy that has huge incentives to keep civil rig
by drzaiusapelord 10y ago
Civil rights and pollution have almost nothing in common, especially when we're talking about an oppressive autocracy that has huge incentives to keep civil rights down.
Worse, the EPA exists because of grassroots democratic action. What grassroots right do these Chinese people have? Much, much less than Americans in the 60s.
- fixermark 10y agoWhile I agree civil rights and pollution have almost nothing in common, civil rights and consumer rights are also pretty unrelated. The larger umbrella category encompassing them is "Pro-individual vs. pro-collective policy," which I assumed we were discoursing under because you brought up civil rights in the context of consumer rights. Under that umbrella, one can certainly discuss tradeoffs a society makes between "Better for the individual" vs. "better for the collective" to move to somewhere the society wants to be economically. Where did "civil rights" stand when the US was employing children to operate textile machines or had no 40-hour work-week protections?