Should you go to prison if you pollute the environment?

Ruthanne said:
Seems everyone is going to jail for something these days. There's gotta be other solutions like education! No I don't think people should go to jail for polluting among a host of other things.
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There is public... CORPORAL PUNISHMENT.

However psychologists and criminal rights advocates would start foaming at the mouth seething with rage just as they did when Joe Arpaio gave those in his jails unpleasantness. They understood that once the public sees how successful that strategy is deterring crime and negative behaviors that the public would quickly flip the several decades long status quo. Most jailed once, did not want to ever return there. Why expensively jail convicted law breakers for month, overcrowding facilities when one might do so for say just a week?

Criminal organizations themselves have always used threats of physical violence to control their own. In this science technology era, it would be straightforward given public oversight, to design such punishment without possibilities of abuse. So no Cool Hand Luke like scenarios. Thus for example, the person that dumps garbage in piles about urban residential streets might receive a sentence of for a week wearing a red striped suit with RF tracking software in a band around their ankles while picking up trash and litter in urban areas. And in case one hasn't noticed, there is an enormous amount of trash in our cities.

Or they might be sentenced to a week in some unpleasantly warm location jail without modern air conditioning, listening to constant annoying behavioral wisdom on loud speakers, eating really boring food, next to a stinking cattle stock yard. No physical pain or damage but yes unpleasant indeed. Much more.
 

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Jeni said:
I am glad it is working for you... here in states it is a crap shoot if you find a charger it is still working... many are vandalized or just not working correctly.
My point in post was not anti electric cars but simply a Solution ...............worked out with a polluter does not always work out but many people read the original settlement and think great this will be done ... but often does not live up to the original promise/ agreement of the settlement. FOLLOWUP is key
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I think the main problem that we'll always deal with on any issue is whether or not people will get on board with the solutions. We know you can't 100% trust any of the corporations because their main focus is shareholders and bottom lines (i.e. CEO pay/bonus's) so definitely they need to be monitored at all times. But also if the people don't adopt the changes and worse, actively fight against them, it's going to slow down or even stop the improvements the solutions were working towards.

Like in the province I used to live in, EV's are big sellers. But here in Alberta, 10 years ago, we were visiting and decided to look at EV's on lots and couldn't find any. And when we bought ours about a year and a half ago, I looked it up and it said there were only about 6,000 registered in a province of 5 million people. And all because Alberta is an oil producer province. So there's an automatic hostility to anything that threatens that oil production.
 
Ruthanne said:
Well they should be compensated by someone. Someone should pay them a lot of money to move to a better place.
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The First Nations people who live in the north of my province can't just move to a better place. They are on their reserves and those are near the regions that are major oil producers here. Yet their groundwater and rivers are impacted by the toxins coming out of the oil sands.

Recently there was major seepage from an oil sands tailing pond, over 5 million gallons of toxic water affected a reserves water supply and our provincial government apparently 'forgot' to notify them for nine months! We have a government that is in the hip pocket of the oil companies and she fights any and all efforts to protect the environment.
 
Well there is also the logging and worse yet the hydro power industry that have been pretty negative toward the First Nations groups as well.
 

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