▲ 142 ▼ These Teens Adopted an Orphaned Oil Well. Their Goal: Shut It Down. Students, nonprofit groups and others are fund-raising to cap highly polluting oil and gas wells abandoned by industry. (www.nytimes.com) submitted 2 years ago by silence7@slrpnk.net [M] to c/climate@slrpnk.net 6 comments fedilink hide all child comments It's a serious policy failure that this is happening; the people paying to cap wells should be the ones who became wealthy by extracting the oil, not a bunch of random teenagers.
[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 32 points 2 years ago (1 child) Privatized profits socialized losses permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago And... "We're the cleanup crew for a party we were too young to attend." - Kevin Gilbert, from a song on the album Thud permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago And... "We're the cleanup crew for a party we were too young to attend." - Kevin Gilbert, from a song on the album Thud permalink fedilink source parent