Plan to incinerate soil from Ohio train derailment is ‘horrifying’, says expert
It&#x27;s staggering that as the richest and most powerful nation ever to exist, we&#x27;ve put ourselves in a position where we can&#x27;t safely transport chemicals, we won&#x27;t provide comprehensive information about contamination to those affected, we either can&#x27;t or aren&#x27;t able to put any kind of comprehensive cleanup plan in place, and we can&#x27;t find trustworthy parties to enact that cleanup.<p>This isn&#x27;t just a politics problem - the entire investor and management class at the railroads has been gambling with lives for years and the incinerator company&#x27;s clearly doing the same thing, and we can&#x27;t even agree as a country that that&#x27;s bad, because we&#x27;ve bought into the free market philosophy so far that we don&#x27;t have a civic language for saying &quot;It&#x27;s not OK that the railroad company management has poisoned an entire town because it helped their bottom line&quot; or &quot;the incinerator company that&#x27;s also trying to poison an entire town is not within its rights to do so.&quot;<p>The cult of the MBA has gutted this country and we&#x27;ve let it do so because we gave up any sense of actual civic or national pride or any sense of society or mutual obligation and can&#x27;t get through a conversation about how we&#x27;d like society to be without someone saying it&#x27;s going to cost money and is therefore a nonstarter or that we&#x27;ve got no right to tell them they can&#x27;t render the land they happen to live on toxic for the next thousand years or wipe out a species they don&#x27;t like.