Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters
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Re: Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters
#2Imagine if the project was given the 5 billion tax dollars handed to Jeff Bezos instead of a measly 4.5 million... This is why the environments a disaster - not because you decide to buy an SUV
Re: Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters
#3Imagine if the project was given the 5 billion tax dollars handed to Jeff Bezos instead of a measly 4.5 million... This is why the environments a disaster - not because you decide to buy an SUV
> Imagine if the project was given the 5 billion tax dollars handed to Jeff Bezos instead of a measly 4.5 million...
The $4.5 million is money New York has to spend out of revenue. Spending it lowers the amount of money New York has.
Neither of those is true of $5 billion in tax incentives. Look at the cash flow.
Re: Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters
#4So uh, how edible will these billion oysters be considering the crap they’re filtering out of the river..?
Re: Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters
#5We should all be freaking out about what we’ve done to the earth, but nobody seems to really be able to compare it within historical context. We just dont know what it was like just a century ago. I’m always surprised by facts like in this story and similar like https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/02/05/257046530/b... And https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/nyregion/new-york-city-sm...
Re: Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters
#6So uh, how edible will these billion oysters be considering the crap they’re filtering out of the river..?
There is a profit motive for those involved to underplay the toxicity of these oysters.
Re: Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters
#7Imagine if the project was given the 5 billion tax dollars handed to Jeff Bezos instead of a measly 4.5 million... This is why the environments a disaster - not because you decide to buy an SUV
> Imagine if the project was given the 5 billion tax dollars handed to Jeff Bezos instead of a measly 4.5 million... The $4.5 million is money New York has to spend out of revenue. Spending it lowers the amount of money New York has. Neither of those is true of $5 billion in tax incentives. Look at the cash flow.
Who cares where it comes from. Tax payers are out 5 billion does it matter how?
Re: Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters
#8So uh, how edible will these billion oysters be considering the crap they’re filtering out of the river..?
Well, I read the article. They are not suggesting that you should eat the oysters ...
Re: Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters
#9We should all be freaking out about what we’ve done to the earth, but nobody seems to really be able to compare it within historical context. We just dont know what it was like just a century ago. I’m always surprised by facts like in this story and similar like https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/02/05/257046530/b... And https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/nyregion/new-york-city-sm...
Freaking out doesn’t seem to be helping? A lot of people have been freaking out for a long time. If anything, it seems to lead to a combination of despondency in allies and stubbornness in enemies. I’d advise working on solutions to specific problems, calmly and deliberately.
Re: Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters
#10So uh, how edible will these billion oysters be considering the crap they’re filtering out of the river..?
My general understanding about bioremediation is the material has to be removed and put in a landfill.