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Given the EPA’s “analyses”, they are killing a lot of people by delaying the implementation of the standards in order to help win an election and keep their jobs. Unless, they don’t really believe their analyses…. Which is it?
It’s not as simple as you make it out to be.
Failing to act will continue to result in preventable adverse health outcomes. But it’s a lot easier to continue to “boil the frog” than it is to implement policies that may result in negative short-term economic implications. With bad timing, the EPA could nuke itself. When one political party seems to not believe that we are even capable of poisoning ourselves and the planet, meaningful change becomes harder.
The saddest part is that we consistently fail to adapt to our environmental realities when it would be in the best long-term interest of our country to do so. Pollution of all forms has negative impacts on our economy by causing public health problems for which the taxpayer bears the burden by reducing the productivity of workers. Further, our failure research, fund, incentivize and adopt better and safer energy strategies is going to lead to a situation wherein other countries get to the next energy revolution first. Historically, countries that have adopted new sources of energy first have become super powers. And there would be tons of good, high-paying jobs involved in pioneering new energy strategies – way more than are lost by failing to adapt.
Ultimately, the US will probably wake up one day, find itself kind of screwed, and make fast, wholesale changes to adjust to a set of circumstances that was predicted years in advance but not acted upon. It will be much more painful than it otherwise would’ve had to have been.
We are seeing something similar now with interest rates and inflation. Everybody knew that ~0% interest rates were unsustainable, but we more or less left them in place for 15+ years. For an even longer amount of time, workers on the low end of the economy had not been getting appropriate raise; we allowed critical supply chain processes to be off shored; and we lost focus about the purpose of things like education and immigration. Now things are adjusting to the mean through high inflation and worker “shortages” (some of which are real, and others are because of ridiculously low pay).
Robert H – in your section following your comment “It’s not as simple as you make it out to be” you validate my observations re the consequences of a delay, winning an election, and keeping their EPA jobs. Specifically,
YOUR COMMENT MY ASSERTION
“Failing to act will continue to result in preventable adverse health outcomes”* —> Killing people by delaying**
“When one political party seems to not believe that we are even capable….” —-> ….in order to help win an election
“With bad timing, the EPA could nuke itself.” ———————————————————> … and keep their jobs
* adverse health outcomes – what a pleasant euphemism
** Unless the EPA doesn’t really believe the data they use in their reports on “preventable deaths”.
The reality is clear, no matter how much rationalizing one does. From your comments, it is clear that those impacted in the near term are acceptable collateral damage in the larger, longer game. If one has that perspective, then one just has to “own it”.
Your response to my focused comment (which you – I presume inadvertently – validated) went on to cite your views on (1) climate change, (2) “new” energies adoption and world domination, (3) recent historical domestic interest rates (4) class economic warfare, (5) inflation causation, and (6) wage theory. In every case, your admonition “it is not as simple as you make it out to be” applies.
It was the insinuation that the EPA “may not believe their analysis” that prompted my long response, which was also – in part – a response to the article as a whole.
There is a spectrum of simplicity, and a two sentence reduction of information (with an insinuation of possible fake science) is a lot more simplified than a longer, paragraph form response. The latter is obviously still a simplification, it’s just less of a simplification.
It should be obvious that I agree with you that lives are at stake if the EPA doesn’t act sooner rather than later. “Adverse health effects” was a better, more holistic term to use. Many of the more immediate impacts of pollution are acute illness, problems with cognition, etc. Cancer, natural disasters, bioaccumulation of toxins, and other deadly impacts are real, but they develop over time. “Adverse health effects” captures everything.
I may not have this explicitly in my original comment, but it was my goal to make it clear that first sentence of your original comment was more valid than the second sentence of your comment. To me, this is clearly a matter of politics rather than a case of the EPA “not believing their data”. I felt as if the complicated nature of our political system in relation to the EPA needed more context; it otherwise felt as if you were giving equal weight to the two options that you presented.