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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: TimF who wrote (47699)7/6/2013 12:53:29 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (3) of 85487
 
You are dead wrong. Our rivers and waterways were so polluted until the clean water act and EPA they were dangerous to everyone. Capitalism caused that, it did not solve it.

It is a lot cheaper for industry to pour their waste like mercury and other bad stuff directly in the rivers than treat it. Everyone knows that!

In our capitalist system they used to pour mercury, PCB's and other dangerous pollutants right into the rivers. In fact some had so much oil in them they caught fire.

Do you remember when Lake Erie caught fire? People are still told not to eat too many fish from the great lakes. Capitalists did that and modern government is cleaning it up!!

Today only 20% of rivers are fit for drinking and swimming.

<<That looks more like the environmental effects of a communist regime than it does a predominately capitalist one. In a profit driven system it costs money to waste resources. In a totally statist central planning regime natural resources, and people, become the eggs you have to break to "make an omelet". Also the wealth created by the free market frees people up from subsistence living and allows them the relative luxury to care, and to spend, on protecting the environment.

With the clean water acts they have been cleaning them up.
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