Veritasium had video explaining about PFAS and environment protections that were needed to keep people/animals from being sick. Somewhere around minute 23 in video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC2eSujzrUY
EPA Seeks to Eliminate Critical PFAS Drinking Water Protections
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#22Does anyone know why this is done? What is the reasoning here? Is this defendable in any way?
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It used to be that environmental conservation was a part of conservative ideology, but MAGA isn't anything like what conservatism used to be in the US.
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#24Countless lives over the next decades are going to be lost due to decisions being made by this administration. Deaths and illnesses that otherwise would have prevented using existing frameworks and systems had they not been destroyed.
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#26Does anyone know why this is done? What is the reasoning here? Is this defendable in any way?
And that seems to be dismantling the US as a military and technological superpower - a self-inflicted Morgenthau plan, if you will. We are left to speculate why a US government would want to dismantle the US, and who would benefit.
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#27Does anyone know why this is done? What is the reasoning here? Is this defendable in any way?
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Healthcare providers and insurance companies are corporations too: you can get rich by treating more people.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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This is probably a big part of it. Environmentalists are not their voters. Basically attacking everything "leftists" are for, whether it's a good idea or not. It used to be that environmental conservation was a part of conservative ideology, but MAGA isn't anything like what conservatism used to be in the US.
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#30Someone get RFK Jr. over there.