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by njharman 5344 days ago
Greed is the most powerful force in the world. If you tie regulation to money, it will be exploited and corrupted. It also shifts accountability from the individual violators to "the corporation". Instead enforce criminal laws against people. Doing the "right thing" doesn't deserve reward. Doing the "wrong thing" does deserve punishment.
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You want to criminalise failure to recycle, or failure to provide a work environment that's unreceptive to disabled persons? How's that going to work?

At what point does pollution or energy usage become criminal?

> At what point does pollution or energy usage become criminal?

At the point it harms society as a whole.

"There is no heaven, but if you do bad you are going to hell."