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I fully agree with you but companies will just declare bankruptcy and the government will still be left holding the bag. Corporations will always find a way to

• foerbert 6y ago
  It's not like there's zero options here. There are lots of options. You seem to be implying we should just give up trying anything. Even the example provided doesn't seem to fall to your bankruptcy idea. If you collect the money for the cleanup on an on-going basis during operation, how does bankruptcy get them out of it? You can change bankruptcy rules. You can even make leadership personally liable. Hell, you could make shareholders liable if you really wanted. We're talking about legally created entities operating at a large scale, and the government. If the government gets around to making a serious stab at changing things, they absolutely can. Admittedly, that's a monstrous 'if' there. But it's not some foregone conclusion that we should just give up on even thinking about holding corporations accountable because it's not even possible.
• katbyte 6y ago
  You make cleanup costs part of the initial construction costs/operating costs.