2007-02-19 15:38:01 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
What about the jobs lost due to certain laws, that end up ruining a whole town; logging towns, mining towns... Thousands of people are put on the street because they can't pay their bills because they lost their job over environmental laws?
What about the livestock farmers who are going under because they can't afford corn to feed their animals due to the increased price because corn is being used for alternative fuels?
What about the thousands of people who deoend on cheap U.S. corn prices to simply stay alive? Corn is the staple of their diets. This is the situationin Mexico right now. Thousands of people have been efeected by the rising costs of tortillas. They can't afford to eat.
I'm not saying environmental laws are bad, but our politicians need to keep everything in perspective. These laws hurt thousands of people.
2007-02-26 17:45:38 · update #1
I guess you could make the argument that certain environmental regulations increase the cost of doing business for some employers thereby decreasing funds available to increase wages and expand workforces. Of course at the same time it may lead to healthier employees and a cleaner environment so it really goes both ways.
2007-02-24 09:39:55 · answer #1 · answered by Allison S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The operational theory of these laws is that they will eventually "flatten-out" in effects; the immediate effects are the most drastic as the costs of items and of doing business in general spikes upward. In theory, the market will come up with alternatives that comply with the new parameters and bring these costs down. Frequently. laws such as this are effected when decision-makers believe that the technology is within reach to make the change and have the ripple shortened by forcing the industries to come up with viable alternatives to maintain profitability. Emission controls on vehicles is a classic example of this "tech-forcing."
2007-02-27 20:56:56 · answer #2 · answered by vampirecircus 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If keeping the workers safer,air and water cleaner. The only people who see this negative is the big business that does not want to spend the money so we can have these things because it cuts into their profits. That is why our steel industry is in other countries because they have less stringent pollution laws or none at all. More and more of these polluters are going over seas.
2007-02-27 00:20:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe that there are any.
2007-02-20 16:13:44 · answer #4 · answered by cheri b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋