• optissima@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    I think it’s safe to assume that if we had stronger regulations, some of which were first implemented 1980, we’d be looking at significantly less than now.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      Agreed, but 1980 was the beginning of the Reagan-Bush era and massive environmental deregulation, which only got worse through Clinton and George W. Bush.

      The great conservative movement killed conservation.

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        1 day ago

        Your phrasing seems to indicate that you’re refuting my point when it strengthens it? Yeah if we had followed the Republican bare minimum instead of letting the bottom drop out it’d already be significantly less of an issue.