I feel almost like the Apostle Paul as he had to reintroduce the basics of Christianity. Don’t worry, I am not going to do that, instead, I want to talk about government regulations. As far back as John Locke, it was determined that regulations had to be implemented by government so that it works. It was Locke who set this principle down. The idea is that the few cannot override the majority. For instance, blowing the tops off of mountains is not a good thing to get to a coal seam. If you do, you must not leave a mess below to pollute water streams and the like, but the coal companies do not clean up their messes. Although there are regulations in place, they ignore them.
In fact, corporations try to do anything to avoid regulations. They claim that it is too expensive, or too difficult to follow, bull! The same goes for pollution, they don’t care. Capitalism has to be reigned in. Especially, predatory capitalism when it moves from region to region, destroying ecosystems, and then leaving a mess behind. Leaving it to others to clean up their messes. For instance the gulf oil spills, or the pipe line in Alaska, and then they want to go other places and destroy the planet even more.
A few years back, I was listening to a local talk show, and a caller reported that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and corporations were creating havoc in Latin America. At the time, this was during the Reagan Administration, I thought this was wrong and I said so, but now, I know he was telling the truth. Corporations are about stealing natural resources. And, they do not care who dies to get to it.
