Forget About Everything Else...

[Labster]

Labster, could you open a thread with links for that please, i looked up NEPA and quite frankly it looks like something that could be responsibly pruned back a bit

Ugh, I would, but I'm not sure we could have a useful debate about it because its wrapped up in a bunch of other things.  And maybe because I'm too lazy to explain NEPA and CEQA to people; I had to take a university course before I got it.  Suffice to say that you're right, that it can be reasonably pruned back a bit, and also sometimes I feel like it needs to be stronger.  It gets a lot of lawsuits for a lot of reasons, some legit, some spurious.  Some of the spurious ones I agree with, some I don't, because I'm just as arbitrary as anyone else.

I’m leaving the thread.

And we lost another snowflake.

Sorry, I mean, I get that this is a big deal and stressful and all.  Trump decided to start a game of chicken with bombs, and he chickened out.  But then this all turned into a Planeghazi for Iran, and I mean that in the exact same sense as for Hillary Clinton: yes, it was a fuckup and our¹ people died, but everyone acknowledged it was a fuckup from the beginning.  Iranian liberals are using it to campaign against conservatives in the same way I would if I was in their shoes -- at least it gives them something to hold onto after all of the flag-waving funeral stuff.

And that's all fine except the world is literally on fire, which is why I mentioned environmental review in the first place.  A billion mammals just died in Australia.  And here the whole world is on edge because less than a couple hundred of 'em died in a few airstrikes and a plane crash.  Are we really going to spend our last-chance decade doing this?

¹ (Most on board were Iranian citizens, even if they happened to also hold Canadian citizenship.)