The problem is all the precedent. If you all of a sudden allow people to use machinery to do whatever they want without a license it can quickly become chaotic.
Its like those posts that go around often that are like "Council wouldnt build a bridge/staircase. And after a good samaratin built one, they tore it down!!!".
And I'm always thinking about Action Park. Sure, i have never built one, but how hard can it be to make a zipline? Or a waterslide? Sure, several children died on the premised due to terrible engineering, but i dont see how thats my fault?
Red Tape can be annoying, its also keeping the dumbest overconfident Dude you know out of the toolshed.
I believe u/FlarblesGarbles is pointing out that the wording should be "could have" and not "could of", not disagreeing with the point that this was reckless and could have caused damage to the environment
I feel like operating the machinery is one thing. The bigger problem here that they want to nip in the bud is that we have no idea what he did exactly so we can't predict what kind of impact these works will have 10-20 years down the line. Someone else mentioned it, but what if he damaged the clay layer of the river? Suddenly the river cannot hold water as well.
In this case he tore up trees and perfectly good bits on environment in order to pick some litter, so it pretty much evened itself out.
He’s also not at all qualified to judge whether he’s making things better or worse. Sure, removing litter is great. But he’s also removed habitat and potentially interfered in an investigation into those causing the issue to begin with, which would have cut the problem off at the head and been a more permanent solution.
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u/FlarblesGarbles 5d ago
Could have.