Comment by scottyah
12 hours ago
That's certainly one interpretation. Most of the workers there keep doing what they do to protect the environment though, so it's entirely plausible that they are taking precautions to save the environment, but find the method in which the regulations are implemented to be slow or arcane. If it's anything like cybersecurity in the government, the laborious process of filling out irrelevant paperwork is orthogonal to actually accomplishing the initial goals.
If there's anything I have learned with age it's that regulations have bizarre unintended consequences. The incentives are too numerous and too precariously balanced to muck with without tipping someone's seesaw right into a volcano.
>laborious process of filling out irrelevant paperwork is orthogonal to actually accomplishing the initial goals.
Well yes, it's designed so that a handful of teenagers can't just clone the IRS database, for example.