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Re: What do you consider to be the most serious environmental problem facing the worl
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Originally Posted by partofme
There is plenty of incentive. If the public put enough pressure on representatives then there would be that incentive and there would at least be public accountability in this case.
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But the public representitives have no incentive to actually ensure that the water is not polluted or to determine where pollution comes from. The rich guys who pollute can simply buy off the public representitives.
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Private owners are not accountable to the public and if somebody buys enough enough ocean then they could pollute all they want and just block it off from anybody that might sue. This doesn't really do the planet any good and has many problems that could come up with sea life.
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Ok, well if they own a part of the ocean they certainly have this right. Under the current system, no one has an incentive to block off the polluted part of the ocean. But, why would someone want to just pollute the ocean? Are you suggesting that someone will buy part of the ocean just to pollute it? Why is the ocean any different from land? Do you think that land should be onwed by the government? After all, someone could buy a large piece of land an pollute it, while ensuring that no pollution leaves his land.
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