Money will not save you. We cannot buy a second planet. We are already paying the price for destroying the environment actually.
So we as american taxpayers should clean up the the entire worldโs messes at our expense? โWith great wealth comes great responsibilityโ??
Hurricanes and typhoons are natural disasters than happen everywhere for a 100,000+ years even Jupiter has a storm for as long as I remember. You canโt blame the US for everything. I recall in the 1990โs in my surplus business, I knew companies who bought up thousands of lots at auction of old useless terminals. They broke them into pieces and shipped then for recycling to Taiwan imported as โbreakageโ it was called. Containers full of old computer terminals with all sorts of toxic stuff. The Taiwanese polluted their own country by capitalisim and greed with this practice. So, who should pay for the clean up? Please donโt tell me the US Taxpayer. It was self inflicted.
Progress has been made. Overpopulation is at the heart of the problem. Plastic containers everywhere and floating in the ocean.
In CA for example, The carbon emissions have been reduced with gasoline and fossil fuels having alcohol mixed in and regulations on factories and design ie: catalytic converters in Autoโs. Factories seal their drains off and need to remove industrial waste in 55 gallon drums, you cannot even have a metal plating company in LA due to all the regulations. Same with spaying paint, permits are expensive and scrubbers everywhere.
So Apple, who does not mfg anything I know of currently in the states sends all their iPhone contract work over to Foxconn in China and they have horrible air quality and negligence. Should the US pay for that too?
The Germans created the VW, exported it worldwide for many years. Who should pay for their past sins in their industrial pollution? The auto buyer or the manufacturer and all their subcontractors?
Extrapolate that to all polluting industries in chemical production, oil refineries, plastic manufacturing, etc and all consumers consuming and disposing waste into landfills, like the convenience of Pampers instead of cloth diapers.
The problems do not originate in the USA, nor should the USA pay for cleaning up other countries messes that are self inflicted capitalism. I believe coal poluttion and use was wide spread in polluting the UK prior to colonization of the USA. The first mines in India were in 1774. China has been traced back to 3400 BC using coal.
Now, here we are years and years later and again my question is who pays the clean up bill?
