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Not hardly the worst. Here's just a sampling: https://www.robedwards.com/2010/12/the-soviet-environmental-disasters-that-could-come-to-haunt-us.html https://w

• jngreenlee 7y ago
  Ownership of land by those without Skin in the Game can easily lead to this sort of thing. Times 1000 when by a politically hellbent bureaucracy.
  • tomjakubowski 7y ago
    Indeed. See also: nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll, the Salton Sea disaster, United States Navy training in Puerto Rico, and the Hanford nuclear site. But even when landowners have "skin in the game", man-made environmental disaster can still strike, like when bad farming practice led to the Dust Bowl. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_Atoll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_Atol... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_in_Vieques,_Puerto_Rico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_in_Vieques,... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl