Administrations like the EPA become little more than the executive arm for legislation drafted and pushed through by big business interests that serve to force out competition and stabilize their own power. They don't get fixed, they get co-opted.
That is very true in America. It need not be so, and we have examples in multiple other countries where it isn't so.
And there have been quite a few Democrats, most recently Elizabeth Warren, who have come up with pretty reasonable proposals to end this pipeline. Are you just unfamiliar with these proposals, or think they're deficient? If so, what are these deficiencies?
You don't like how big business captures government so you want to give big business even freer reign? I'm a little confused here. Walk me through the logic of this.
Very true. But I'm not quite sure why you think a market solution is coming to this. Forget panacea, the unregulated market is the cause of this problem, not just here but everywhere in the world.
Have you ever heard of the term permaculture? I think a lot of the problems we currently have would be largely reduced if this was adopted by more people. Unfortunately, there are many laws that prohibit such adaptation from happening.
I'm aware, yes. The movement against monoculture, industrial agriculture practices has been around quite a while.
I'm not aware that these laws (I'd like to know which ones) are set in stone. Isn't the obvious solution to work to repeal them, rather than hope for spontaneous change?
The anti-democratic business-government nexus is, of course, quite real. Which is why despite 30-40 years of alarm bells ringing about climate change, and the public being quite in favor of curtailing practices that chase it, we've had barely any movement.
The straightforward solution seems to be to insulate government from capture by big business. Start, for instance, with preventing regulatory bodies being staffed with former employees of the very businesses they're supposed to regulate, and disallow any such employee from being able to get a cushy corporate job after a few years in government. Lobbying reform also seems to be called for.
What I don't get is your support for this ruling that is likely coming down. That's exactly what businesses have been clamoring for: defanging what regulatory authority remains in the way for their maximalization of profits. It's utterly confusing, given your stances, that you are celebrating this.
