I'm no fan of big government. But reviewing some of the photos I took of the trash problem last fall, this simple thought resurfaces, which I know I have stated before:
The cost of doing the wrong thing should hurt more than the price of doing the right thing.
Throughout the state legislature, the counties, the municipalities; it should be very, very expensive to pull off the road near a spillway and toss an appliance out of a truck. There should be near-debilatating financial consequences for someone to pull over on a bridge and throw a tire into a river.
Enforcement would be difficult. But if the penalty were such that the fear of loss would far outweigh the convenience of doing the wrong thing... perhaps the outcome would be greater compliance of environmental law.
© 2008, 2009, Mike D. Anderson, Crystal, MN.
[Originally published January, 2008.]
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