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on Sunday April 30 2017, @03:07PM
from the we-can-find-no-longer-find-data-against-our-plans dept.
from the we-can-find-no-longer-find-data-against-our-plans dept.
You were warned. Now it begins: The Chicago Tribune reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is working on changes to its Web properties:
The EPA's extensive climate change website now redirects to a page that says "this page is being updated" and that "we are currently updating our website to reflect EPA's priorities under the leadership of President Trump and Administrator Pruitt." It also links to a full archive of how the page used to look on Jan. 19, before Trump's inauguration.
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You're being followed. Cut out the hanky-panky for a few days.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday April 30 2017, @06:35PM (3 children)
People that are old enough will have no incentive to avoid any environmental issues because they will be dead by age long before any of this would affect them. And the people that are rich and thus likely to profit from economic activities with a negative environmental impact can protect themselves to a large degree.
Thus they have all the incentive to continue wrecking the environment for everybody else but will feel no pain themselves.
How this can play out can be seen in China where the environment is highly polluted but the really rich and powerful have their own guarded farming that provides unpolluted and GMO free food, to them only. A future environmental caste system where the rich and powerful enjoy good environment and the rest suffer cancer etc for which there is only health care if you got money you don't.
Of course there's a limit to everything. Because the bad environment will eventually catch up with everyone, including the children of todays rich people. And sometimes the rich people get poor.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Sunday April 30 2017, @07:44PM (2 children)
Add to that the fact that a lot of really rich people live on or very near the coast.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/30/oceans-rising-faster-than-scientific-forecasts/ [mercurynews.com]
The Musk/Trump interview appears to have been hacked, but not a DDOS hack...more like A Distributed Denial of Reality.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @07:51PM (1 child)
Add to that the fact that a lot of really rich people live on or very near the coast.
That's not a serious problem for them. Being really rich means they can easily relocate while the millions of poor are trapped by geography.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday April 30 2017, @09:40PM
Precisely, besides being rich means having the means to secure any house against the nature.