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>What does this even mean? Why the hell does it have to be so hard to get anything done in this country? Because some engineering specialty lobbyist wants it t
by potato3732842 1y ago
>What does this even mean? Why the hell does it have to be so hard to get anything done in this country?
Because some engineering specialty lobbyist wants it to be that way to drive business to his clients, he cooks up some narrative about how more review will save the planet and HN takes it at face value.
You see this crap with every sort of permitting. Except perhaps in the rare cases it constrains the biggest entities (e.g. DuPont dumping crap in the river or whatever) all these BS processes and requirements do is raise the richness floor of who can play the game. The BigCos can pay for the pretexts to get the permission they need to keep doing whatever, free from the competition from everyone down-market who can't afford that.
- hdseggbj 1y agoThey also enrich the parasitic bureaucracy. Climate change is a scam. Not because it isn't changing, of course it's changing, but humans can't and won't change it back, nor should they bother trying. What they should do, scientifically, is adapt, like all organisms. The irony is those demanding we change our behavior to reverse climate change are the ones actually fighting to keep humans from changing by adapting to changing climatic conditions, and so they are the biggest threat to human survival as a species. We're gonna burn every deep of oil. Petroleum use goes up every year, regardless.
- dylan604 1y ago> all these BS processes and requirements do is raise the richness floor of who can play the game. This is usually preceded by those that can afford to have played got to that point because they too did not follow any regulations when they started. They are only now willing to follow regulations because they can afford to knowing that it is a worthy expense to keep new competition from starting