> There are huge (truly gigantic) areas of the outback where pollution would not bother anyone.
That's exactly what the British colonisers said when they engaged in a bit of atomic testing at Maralinga, leaving Aboriginal people blinded, affected by radiation poisoning and left with an ongoing legacy of radiation-related health problems.
I expect we're less in favour of a repeat of that kind of dumping of the side effects of first world problems on indigenous people than you seem to be.
Or .. you reckon we should agree to be rounded up and shipped off to the reservation again?
Not at all, I'm in Western Australia and we've already agreed to build a commercial heavy rare earths (HRE) separation facility in Texas for the US DoD [1].
This is ideal, as central north americans that seek the upside of acres of thin film TV sets and excess consumption also get the toxic waste that comes with it while no longer having to complain about the Chinese having all the rare earths and associated waste.
I like that a lot better than having to tell Jill [2] that a bunch of people from across the planet want to fart and shit in her back yard (as you proposed).
Poor woman has seen her family through enough already.
That's exactly what the British colonisers said when they engaged in a bit of atomic testing at Maralinga, leaving Aboriginal people blinded, affected by radiation poisoning and left with an ongoing legacy of radiation-related health problems.
I expect we're less in favour of a repeat of that kind of dumping of the side effects of first world problems on indigenous people than you seem to be.
Or .. you reckon we should agree to be rounded up and shipped off to the reservation again?
[1] https://genius.com/Paul-kelly-and-the-messengers-maralinga-r...