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Honestly, I thought this was common knowledge. I don't see it as a form of corruption, it was encoded into law primarily because most environmental regulations
by tristor 5y ago
Honestly, I thought this was common knowledge. I don't see it as a form of corruption, it was encoded into law primarily because most environmental regulations were passed in the midst of the Cold War. As a country, at that time, we didn't want to do anything which might impede the progress of military advancement and force superiority, which meant that national security concerns utterly trumped newly formulated (and somewhat hotly contested) environmental regulations. I don't think there were any backroom deals involved, I believe all parties, including the staunchest supporters of these regulations at the time, were in support of military exemption.
- mandmandam 5y agoThe Cold War which ended 3 decades ago yes? There wasn't some other Cold War necessitating wanton environmental destruction that I missed? ... As a country, at this time, there is no excuse for this exemption remaining on the books, none, none at all.
- tristor 5y agoTo be clear, I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm more just trying to provide context for how it came to be. The environmental regulations the US operates under were mostly passed during the Cold War. We've had no significant environmental regulation since. Maybe we should have some... but we haven't.