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How is viewing Chernobyl from that angle useful in this context?

The Houston Ship Channel has the potential to become an environmental disaster similar to Chernobyl, but affecting the fourth-largest population and economic center in the US.

It's not hyperbole -- if you drive down 225 and 146 from Houston to Galveston, it feels like you're in the Sonic the Hedgehog Chemical Plant Zone... it just goes on and on at an unbelievable scale. It self-perpetuates partially because expanding existing petrochemical complexes seems to meet less opposition than building new ones.

https://www.google.com/search?q=houston+ship+channel+plants&...

https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7348066,-95.1345542,13223m/d...