Government failed us yet again. Remind me, why am I being forced to pay 30-35% of my paycheck to these idiots taking payouts and working like fat slugs off my dollar? This is why the climate is so screwed up. Government isn't responsive. You have to make industry pay true cost for use of finite resources. Similar to taxing the finite capacity of the atmosphere to absorb greenhouse gases. Externalities should be priced in economics. Duh? You build a model to computer GDP but you don't take off future survival. Then what is growth but short winded elations. Anthropocene needs to wise up before sixth extinction sets us free, brutally.
To be fair, this should be a prime example of a case where free market types AND those that believe in strong public protection of resources can agree that it stinks. There can be no libertarian defense of this behavior. It is a corrupted government process keeping a company from paying the true market price for the resources it is using. All actors in this case are warping the process for the enrichment of the company and lining the pockets of a few key players.
Also, pulling water out of a desert watershed, trucking it up to Canada, to ship it back down to the US to sell in little plastic bottles is the height of corporate capitalist insanity.
That's why I align myself with neither side strongly. There are balances of power and checks required. On the market, on business and monied interests, on government (and various branches, agencies, etc.).
Almost like an engineering problem where you want to ensure no one process overwhelms all others.
Businesses will use whatever systems they can for their own benefit, if the government is corruptible, it will be used. It just so happens that you can buy government, so they will.
