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> My generation decided that we'd rather get rich and then let our kids choke to death on our waste products. i think this really has to do with the paralysis
by andrekandre 6y ago
> My generation decided that we'd rather get rich and then let our kids choke to death on our waste products.
i think this really has to do with the paralysis of our public (and private) institutions to deal with externalities... in the 60s and 70s even a hard-core conservative like nixon would pass amendments to the clean air act or establish the epa... nowadays, even obama couldnt pass a new act through congress with even a majority in both houses!
we have institutional paralysis, and it will take a lot of work (or immediate crisis) to unwind the monied (and self) interests' influence on the system (imo)
- CyanBird 6y agoIf you are interested as to why that is I very much recommend you to read I to the toxic transparency paradox that James D'Angelo has written extensively about http://congressionalresearch.org/ http://congressionalresearch.org/ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gg4dJ8nyiPo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gg4dJ8nyiPo The short outline is that congressional transparency serves interest groups exponentially more than to the public itself through intimidation tactics to the legislative branch The public has secret ballots to avoid vote buying and all sorts of deviancies of the democratic process, yet the entire legislative branch doesn't? Toxic transparency
- andrekandre 6y agowow, i would never had guessed that.. will take a look, thanks!