• JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Cities have always dumped their shit into the river, it’s half the reason to build a city there.

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      1 day ago

      Sure but when it was only a few people it wasn’t as much of an issue. And the pollution part is new.

      We can make them clean enough to swim in again if we want to. It’s totally doable.

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        1 day ago

        I’ll have what you’re smoking. Spend a week in NYC and tell me we can make that water clean. I grew up on Long Island Sound, and the entire coast of CT dumps literal raw shit into the sound when it rains too much.