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How can you prove that expanding the mine actually caused any damages to the environment? With a chemical plant, if it leaks waste and poisons a nearby river, t
by ping_pong 5y ago
How can you prove that expanding the mine actually caused any damages to the environment? With a chemical plant, if it leaks waste and poisons a nearby river, the damages are very real and easy to understand.
Expanding a mine that doesn't directly cause damages but increases CO2 doesn't have direct damages that you measure because it's global. Even with something like Fukushima, you can measure the damage it did to Japan, but what about all the radioactive waste it is leaking into the Pacific? How do you measure that catastrophe? Can you even prove that it has done any damage, even though it's obvious?
- gotostatement 5y agoit seems like its a pragmatic question, almost an engineering question about how the legal system can work, and Im hopelessly out of my depth there
- tshaddox 5y ago> How can you prove that expanding the mine actually caused any damages to the environment? How can you prove that someone committed a murder? It’s a difficult question, and there’s probably no method that makes mistakes impossible, but the solution is not to throw up our hands and say “there’s nothing we can possibly do to improve the situation.”
- TheSpiceIsLife 5y agoYou're on very shaky ground here. It doesn't seem like you're trying very hard to respond to the strongest possible interpretation of the topic at hand, but rather some very finely sliced minutiae. And besides, we can measure one minutes contribution, and we can, if we choose, apply proportional mitigation factors or costs or penalties. We can look at past failures and use those to adjust our course. What exactly are you arguing against here?