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Want to start a backyard steel-smelting campaign? NIMBYs will block it. Want to eradicate sparrows who seem to be eating crops? Environmental review will block
by xkcd-sucks 4y ago
Want to start a backyard steel-smelting campaign? NIMBYs will block it.
Want to eradicate sparrows who seem to be eating crops? Environmental review will block it.
Want to set up a space launch facility near a village and jettison booster stages over agricultural fields? NIMBYs will block it.
Want to operate a pig farm in a residential neighborhood? NIMBYs will block it.
- InitialLastName 4y agoThis is a weird straw-man of the YIMBY argument. There's a huge (gaping) chasm between blocking heavy industry and grievous environmental damage and standing in the way of your neighbor being allowed to add an ADU to their house.