• Chocrates@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I live in LA and this seems wild. Isn’t the free market supposed to handle this? If you didn’t save enough money to handle a year of low crick bugs then shouldn’t you fail and daddy capitalism will let someone else take its place?

    /s of course.

    This is why UBI might be a good idea, at least the workers and even C levels could still pay rent and not have to give unchecked funds to industry.

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      8 months ago

      So they suing the EPA because they want pollute more yet freaking out because they are killing off all the crayfish due to the pollution? I swear we are living in some fuck up dark comedy that isn’t funny.

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      8 months ago

      no joke, many fresh and brackish water species can be impacted by runoff of human pharmaceuticals.

      For example there’s a creek that runs right through Colorado university boulder and they’ve done studies which find hormonal impacts resulting in drifted genders in subsequent generations of fish.

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    8 months ago

    Who knew that piss poor environmental regulation would lead to environmental concerns and issues.

    Why didn’t someone warn us!

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    8 months ago

    I have too much of those assholes in the pond I manage here in europe… you have those back…