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Environmental engineer here. I don’t do housing, I don’t do highways, I don’t do office buildings. Every project I work on is environmental protection of one sort or another. NIMBYs are our second worst problem. As usual they don’t really care about the environment, they just want us to do it somewhere else even though it’s their pollution we’re cleaning up.

But if NIMBYs are only second worst who is worst? The Greens: Sierra Club, NRDC, WWF, etc., etc. etc. The NIMBYs provide the infantry but the greens provide the intellectual power firepower.

Everything costs three times what it should cost and takes five times as long.

My point is, it’s not just housing.

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