05-09-2017, 05:20 PM
(05-09-2017, 04:22 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Who better to come up with ways to produce materials in the cleanest, practical manner possible.
It is not the job of the EPA to come up with new manufacturing processes. Obviously that job falls on industrial scientists.
The problem is that in a capitalist society industry is driven by profit. The CEOs of large corporations are not evil or heartless, but the system is. So any CEO who reduces profits in order to protect the environment will be replaced by a CEO who will return the largest profits possible. That is how capitalism works.
And that is why no industry will ever do anything to protect the environment that costs money that it is not required to do. This is not a wild theory. This is a fact based on the history of the United States and the current state of affairs in other countries that have lax environmental protection policies.
Any private industry influence on the EPA will result in profits being placed above human lives.
