It does not really generate toxic waste like coal fired power plants
It generates all the waste associated with the electricity it uses, which is often from coal fired power plants...
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...says the guy who clearly doesn't understand the geologic water cycle.
The problem isn’t about building houses. Everyone wants to live within 30 miles of the border. All our farm land and natural green space is in the same location. So what would you do? Which would you have us do? Bulldoze farm land, or bulldoze protected green space that is already threatened? If it was as easy as “build houses” we could have done that.
Then build fucking apartments instead, damn it!
instead of bending over for unreasonable shitheads in your party.
Why do you think he'd be inclined to do anything other than bend over for himself?
Huh, that's the kind of thing that would just make me start visualizing how many I could fit in there.
They can build fire removedant systems...
Is the company that makes them headquartered in Scunthorpe?
Not for long if Lennart has anything to say about it, I'm sure.
I agree with you even though I'm only guessing at the episode you're talking about and I have no idea which of the two Vortas he was.
(It's the Ferengi hostage exchange episode, right?)
Sure, regulations such as carbon taxes are necessary to contain negative externalities, but if there’s a demand for cheap products there will be a lowest bidder that will take all market share.
If the taxes are accounting for the externalities well enough, even the lowest bidder will be sustainable.
The European Union is a confederation, just like the United States under the Articles of Confederation was.
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Housing shortages are caused by bad government policy: namely, low-density zoning. Direct your anger towards the entity that deserves it, and make them fix their fuck-up.
(Note: I'm not making some kind of Libertarian "all government is bad" argument here. I'm saying that in this specific case, the laws need to be changed.)