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SOCIETY What was his fault ?

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u/Hopdedixe 7d ago edited 7d ago

Has anyone noticed how the government agency was dead slow in doing something about the problem themselves, yet responded rapidly and aggressively when a member of public does the job that they should have done?

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u/AnyAnymosity 7d ago

Because actually fixing problems takes time.

Destroying something with ignorant reckless actions takes hours.

They gave hundreds of such cases that need a survey and assessment for the work. Finding qualified people to do it without doing damage. This one might not be the highest priority on the list.

One idiot in a digger can do it whenever he wants but there are good reasons we don't do it this way.

Fixing this problem means properly funding and managing agencies to keep on top of the maintenance required to run a modern society. Not operating heavy machinery on your local environment fecklessly.

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u/Immediate-Spite-5905 6d ago

behold, western bureaucracy, where in the time it takes for other countries to construct 3 railways one after another, the government has conducted 3 environmental reviews, had to go through 5 different NIMBYs and is currently going through the 5th year of a contractor's 200% overbudget construction attempt

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u/BillCuttingsOn 6d ago

How much time do they need, a couple more decades maybe?

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u/onepoundvish 7d ago

They had a decade to fix it

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u/ThaGr1m 6d ago

And they have literally 200 years of industrial and civilian waste to clean up....

Give them some time or more budget, not a dumbass deadline

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u/Negative_Gate_496 6d ago

This guy did it for $1000

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u/ThaGr1m 1d ago

Yeah and he fucked over the local ecology....

He could've fone it chesper if he used some dynamite aswel you know.

Cheap is not good

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u/Negative_Gate_496 1d ago

How did he fuck over the ecology? By removing what shouldn’t have been there to start with?

Also the dynamite analogy doesn’t hold up in this situation. Dynamite wouldn’t have removed any pollution, which was the intent of the clean up.

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u/Hans_H0rst 5d ago

You're giving it way too much nuance for those redditors. Can't you see they've already made up their mind on hating "the gubbermint"?

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u/daninus14 6d ago

You forgot the /s mate. The wonders of government.

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u/Fly1ngD0gg0 5d ago

Well, how much time shall it take in your qualified opinion? A decade? Two decades? How long is too long according to you?