You could go back to the 50s-90s in America and see the same disgusting view and pollution and then air pollution regulations became a thing. Fuck everyone victim blaming the people without public health services. Of course you gotta burn trash if your neoliberal fascist government doesn’t offer trash service. You stupid fuck.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Imagine, if you will, vast swathes of land set aside for two purposes: firstly, the growing of a curated forest of some species of tree chosen for the fastest growth and the minimum nutrient sequestration, and second, for the rehabilitative and reparative labor of liberals and reactionaries, sentenced to three tasks. These tasks would be forestry services, harvesting the lumber, and then burying that lumber deep in mines hand excavated for this purpose.

      There they would not only be humanely removed from society, they would over time make up for some measure of the waste and excess their consumption and political support caused.

      Or just invent a full-immersion VR system and make them think they're doing that for a century or two, while the real task of carbon sequestration is being done by machines farming a carbon source that's more efficient to grow and store, maybe some kind of algae idk.