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> I feel environmental regulation is going the same path. There is a lot of resistance against improving things just because. Only when something really bad hap
by Jtsummers 2y ago
> I feel environmental regulation is going the same path. There is a lot of resistance against improving things just because. Only when something really bad happens, people wake up. But even often nothings happens.
And then a generation or two later they forget that we had so much pollution in our rivers that they occasionally caught fire. "Why do we need these protections?" Protections get weakened, problems recur. It happens everywhere, we forget why we do things a particular way, fail, and then re-learn the lessons (the hard way).
- pwg 2y ago> It happens everywhere, we forget why we do things a particular way, fail, and then re-learn the lessons (the hard way). https://theknowledge.io/chestertons-fence-explained/ https://theknowledge.io/chestertons-fence-explained/
- dylan604 2y agoWhen I was a kid the pollution was so bad in the US, we learned about acid rain. They made changes that nobody liked, but the acid stopped failing from the sky and people accepted it was a better situation. Change takes energy to implement. It is much easier to not make the change, and for the most part people are just lazy. It takes a determine group to decide to expend the energy to get the changes started.
- bamboozled 2y agoStill the forgetting part in the danger, the complacency. I think that’s why the US is in the state it’s in politically. Too good for too long means people are willing to let it get silly again.
- kelnos 2y agoI remember this, but it's been decades since I last heard someone mention "acid rain". Young adults today have probably never heard of it. Forgetting the past (or never learning about it in the first place) is a great way to repeat it.