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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Me to be honest. Where, if not in your capital, would you be able to enforce environmental protection of your streams?

Granted our biggest cities are smaller than those of most other countries, but in Zürich, Bern and Basel you see people bathing in the Limmat, Aare and Rhine respectively all the time.

[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 hours ago

Bro, Switzerland has gotta be a pretty notable exception.

I have literally never seen more beautiful and clean waters in my life than the ones I saw while visiting Switzerland.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Environmental protection + Conservatives is usually a recipe for environmental disaster.

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Which is ironic, the EPA was created by Nixon.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

He only created it to block Congress from passing something more effective.

He certainly didn't do it out of concern for the environment.

He did like trains though! But I think that's moreso just the end result of being from SoCal more specifically Yorba Linda.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 5 points 10 hours ago

It's sewage infrastructure from the 1800s that needs to be repaired - apparently the pipe cracked. I don't know why it hasn't been fixed yet, that's wild.