• pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one
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    Some places are insanely polluted to the point where you wonder how a whole company could be so braindead and essentially poison themselves.
    A place not far from where I live had a chemical plant which just dumped loads of chemicals on a meadow for years. Now there are ground water pumps installed there which need to run 24/7 so that the chemicals don’t contaminate nearby rivers and hence the rest of the country.
    When taking samples from the pumped up water you can smell gasoline.

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      We’re house shopping and there has been a house on a lake sitting on the market forever. I got curious and researched the lake and… It’s a literal superfund site. The company that was on the other side of the lake just dumped their waste chemicals right on the shore and it has polluted both the lake and ground water forever essentially because they don’t break down. I looked up the previous owner… Died of cancer. The shit that companies are and were allowed to get away with is just insane. Meanwhile right wing nut jobs want to get rid of the EPA (which was ironically created by Richard Nixon).

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      Some places are insanely polluted to the point where you wonder how a whole company could be so braindead and essentially poison themselves.

      “That’s the future guy’s problem, my problem is making money.”

      No need to wonder. That’s how.

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      A place not far from where I live had a chemical plant which just dumped loads of chemicals on a meadow for years.

      Sounds cheap.

    • Flax@feddit.uk
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      The largest lake in the UK by area got massively polluted and turned into a swamp of toxic green algae. It’s crazy how people just let stuff like that happen.