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>a NIMBY is anti-progress And what is "progress"? We both have ideas about what progress is. Are mine the same as yours?
by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
>a NIMBY is anti-progress
And what is "progress"? We both have ideas about what progress is. Are mine the same as yours?
- ToValueFunfetti 2y agoDoes your definition of progress say that a civilization that gets safer, cheaper, carbon-neutral power has progressed?
- skeaker 2y agoIn this context, progress would probably refer to moving to a power source that doesn't kill people or destroy the planet. I think that is generally pretty agreeable even if you want to get into a definitional argument.
- burnte 2y agoYou can define it how you like, the nature of a NIMBY is that whatever it is, they don't want it near THEM (hence Not In My Back Yard) and affecting THEM, but they don't care about how it may affect others. If they were against whatever the thing is it wouldn't matter if it were their backyard or someone else's, they're only concerned with THEIR lives. When all you care about is you, you don't care about others and that's anti-progress.