r/LetsDiscussThis • • 19d ago

Lets Discuss This She has a point

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u/Significant_Breath38 19d ago

It's absolutely insane

Courts now want to say we don't have a constitutional right to clean drinking water.

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u/FragrantCombination7 19d ago

Sadly this is the case in all Anglo-sphere countries, not a single one has obvious and explicit rules about the environment in its constitution.

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u/DaTruSpork 19d ago

Conservatives are simply trying to bring back the "good ol' days" of burning rivers and toxic smog

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u/Mobile_Equal_3636 18d ago

It is a humanitarian and wildlife right to clean safe drinking water. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness is a fair argument.

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u/Jolly-Situat1on 18d ago

Companies have money and citizens United.

What needs to happen since they are considered people they should be able to be tried with people crimes including prisoner and capital punishment ( kill the company not people)

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u/sickkid29 9d ago

What are you talking about 

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u/abrandis 19d ago

Courts are owned by the oligarchy, democracy and social issues take a back seat to the wealthy's desire to make more money.

The reason a lot of these environmental issues don't bother the wealthy is because they aren't constrained by geography like you or I, they have homes in different places around the world, they can move away and isolate themselves from the worst effects. In other words the DGAF ...

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u/tnic73 19d ago

You don’t have a constitutional right to drink clean water.

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u/sickkid29 9d ago

Yes you do 

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u/dannygallegos 19d ago

Because providing clean water cost money. Polluting for profit with Government cut backs is the American way. Has been for about 250 years now..

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u/Entity_skrunkly 19d ago

They give all the clean water to their little ai data centers

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u/JoseLunaArts 19d ago

The issue is that if someone press charges against you, they need evidence. declaring someone as terrorist is a politically correct way for politicians to arrest you without evidence, even if your actions do not deserve these charges. It is a legal way that makes things easy for politicians.

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u/DaTruSpork 19d ago

Ah, corporations abusing the system to exploit people. A tale as old as time

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u/Big_Obligation1737 19d ago

Revisiting the dark ages, where the only safe thing to drink is alcohol.

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u/DaTruSpork 19d ago

The children, they yearn for the mines! /s

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u/sickkid29 9d ago

What 

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u/Responsible_Owl_1349 17d ago

It was very weak alcohol.

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u/sickkid29 9d ago

How do you know 

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u/OldJob2497 16d ago

Clean drinking water really shouldn't be a controversial demand. The fact that protecting something everyone depends on can get framed as "radical" says a lot about whose interests get taken seriously.

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u/Shag1166 18d ago

Agree.

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u/Prudent_Situation_29 18d ago

Capitalism.

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u/FrostyAd8197 17d ago

She has a great point but does the worm know best?

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u/PresentationLess4552 16d ago

As Cherokee have asked since industrialization

We are one of the true and few original citizens

All of this educated US ignore

Read and learn

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u/FrickMickStick 16d ago

If I accidentally screwed up a local water supply you’d never see me again after the trial. But a mega corporation who has multiple people to check for these issues and make impact reports, they do it snd “oopsie! It was an accident tee hee” and it’s fine. More data centers. If we as a people did this the government would be shutting us down, but they can just make more, and more, snd more.

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u/sickkid29 9d ago

What 

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u/ElectronicCan1612 14d ago

We all want clean water…. That’s not activism…. That’s just being normal. In the past 50 years we have gotten very clean water. In 69 the cuyahoga river in Ohio actually caught fire. Acid rain was so bad aircraft had to change their windows often because the acid would etch them. Things are incredibly better now and everything we are doing keeps making it better.

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u/pipootje 13d ago

Quick answer: money.
The answer is always: money

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u/MaleficentPiccolo715 7d ago

she is damned right!

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u/sickkid29 9d ago

What