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Environment & Energy

AverageOldGuy

(3,094 posts)

5. Typical corporate and Big Government practice

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Wed Oct 22, 2025, 09:21 AM

Wednesday

Put the nasty stuff in low-income, politically powerless areas.

-- Toxic waste dumps in black communities.
-- Interstate highway system in cities cut through and destroyed cohesive black neighborhoods
-- Data centers in rural America

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