A nice idea, but in practice, trust has been completely broken by governments allowing developers to destroy nature in the name of "progress". When I hear permitting reform now, my mind immediately goes to "They're gonna make it easier to destroy shit", just like in the current terrible BAAJA bill.
Trust must be repaired, accountability restored, and somehow we the people need to have faith once again that the government won't act like this joke of an administration has for the past two years.
This is a fantastical article with absolutely no basis in reality.
First, the fallout in rapid and unregulated development is what necessitated current regulatory processes in the first place (not that all of them are as efficient as they should be). It’s cute to talk about the Empire State Building being built in very little time without mentioning the environmental fallout to the places those resources came from by operating that “efficiently”.
Second, there is absolutely nothing to say the average American would be living in dreamland with deregulation for energy and development. More likely, corporate American would monopolize that growth and squeeze the extra profits out of the populous for their shareholders as being demonstrated today in the AI datacenter industry taking jobs and ruining ecosystems and (surprise!) not lower the cost of living.
I’m curious, how to you get from deregulating development and extraction to rich runs of salmon and restored marshlands? Come back to Earth, where human short-sightedness and greed are the reality.
"In Appalachian communities, the streams previously tainted by mine drainage would be deep into restoration efforts to bring back the native fish." Um....... those streams are less tainted by mine drainage BECAUSE of environmental regulation of the energy sector.
What are you even arguing in this piece? That energy companies could save the ducks if ONLY they were less burdened by red tape? At best, you're suggesting construction projects like natural bridges and energy infrastructure (which you never name, but I assume includes data centers) are the same, both in their regulatory burden and their positive impact on nature. You give no specifics of previous examples or proposals for the future; only vague platitudes about American nostalgia like a Clint Eastwood commercial.
Oh, and those salmon in the Pacific Northwest returned to the Klamath River after hydroelectric dams were REMOVED. Native American tribes - the Yurok in particular - made that happen, not fucking energy infrastructure.
A nice idea, but in practice, trust has been completely broken by governments allowing developers to destroy nature in the name of "progress". When I hear permitting reform now, my mind immediately goes to "They're gonna make it easier to destroy shit", just like in the current terrible BAAJA bill.
Trust must be repaired, accountability restored, and somehow we the people need to have faith once again that the government won't act like this joke of an administration has for the past two years.
This is a fantastical article with absolutely no basis in reality.
First, the fallout in rapid and unregulated development is what necessitated current regulatory processes in the first place (not that all of them are as efficient as they should be). It’s cute to talk about the Empire State Building being built in very little time without mentioning the environmental fallout to the places those resources came from by operating that “efficiently”.
Second, there is absolutely nothing to say the average American would be living in dreamland with deregulation for energy and development. More likely, corporate American would monopolize that growth and squeeze the extra profits out of the populous for their shareholders as being demonstrated today in the AI datacenter industry taking jobs and ruining ecosystems and (surprise!) not lower the cost of living.
I’m curious, how to you get from deregulating development and extraction to rich runs of salmon and restored marshlands? Come back to Earth, where human short-sightedness and greed are the reality.
"In Appalachian communities, the streams previously tainted by mine drainage would be deep into restoration efforts to bring back the native fish." Um....... those streams are less tainted by mine drainage BECAUSE of environmental regulation of the energy sector.
What are you even arguing in this piece? That energy companies could save the ducks if ONLY they were less burdened by red tape? At best, you're suggesting construction projects like natural bridges and energy infrastructure (which you never name, but I assume includes data centers) are the same, both in their regulatory burden and their positive impact on nature. You give no specifics of previous examples or proposals for the future; only vague platitudes about American nostalgia like a Clint Eastwood commercial.
Oh, and those salmon in the Pacific Northwest returned to the Klamath River after hydroelectric dams were REMOVED. Native American tribes - the Yurok in particular - made that happen, not fucking energy infrastructure.
Those riveters and guys eating lunch on a beam high above NY were wearing what we consider today to be loafers or dress shoes. No traction at all.
Took balls of steel to be on those high beams that way.