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vividspecter
lemm.ee

Frankly, there should be jail time for this level of environmental vandalism. Especially since the defendants haven't shown even the slightest bit of remorse:

A judgment published on Friday said the prosecutor had noted there was “no evidence of insight, contrition, or remorse from the defendants and the defendants concede that there is no evidence of remorse.”

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jonnereply
infosec.pub

Yep, if you have enough money to build a private airport, a million dollar fine is probably just the cost of doing business.

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WhatAmLemmyreply
lemmy.world

If the consequences for crimes are a fine, it's only a crime for the poor/workers. For a corpo it's just an overhead, and the cost of doing business (which is by design of the shadow plutocracy that owns our "democracy").

The consequences for wilful ecological destruction should absolutely be both jail time for all decision makers, and crippling fines.

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Agent641reply
lemmy.world

Fuck it would be a shame if some ELF found out his home address or something.

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Minarble
aussie.zone

Pocket change. It’s just easier and cheaper to pay the fine if they happen to get one.

Triple the land cleared should be repatriated by the commonwealth and the previous owner fined to the extent that complete rewilding requires.

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ladiciusreply
lemmy.world

"It's a price, not a fine."

Yep. Like that guy who bought an old english building protected by conservation law and destroyed it to build a modern house. Had to rebuild the pub until the very last stone and was made to pay for that very costly effort.

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