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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 liberty1776
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.
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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Yes and they can then be voted out of office. That's the public's responsibility.
No but they could run say an oil rig and not really worry about making sure spills do not happen since it's their part of the ocean and they can do what they want. Maybe Carnival buys it's own area for cruises and doesn't really worry about dumping since it's theirs. The passengers do not really go into the water so a certain amount of pollution wouldn't be noticed. Just a few thoughts.
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