PureX
Veteran Member
What killed the steel mills on the Great Lakes wasn't "eco nazis", it was capitalism. Investors only care about maximizing their immediate returns, and so rewarded the CEOs for keeping those returns high. But that meant not spending profits updating the plants, which were all built way back in the 30s. Meanwhile, newer foreign plants were being built around the world with modern updates that made them far more efficient and produced higher quality steel, cheaper. So manufacturers began buying the better, cheaper, foreign steel which only made the American steel plants LESS inclined to spend any of their profits updating their plants. Especially when they could just abandon it and build a whole new plant in some foreign country where they could avoid unions and exploit the workers. So that's what they did. It had nothing at all to do with ecological restrictions. That was just an excuse for their selling out the American people for bigger profits making steel in foreign countries, by exploiting foreign workers.I blame a lot of it when industry (almost overnight) packed up and left the country.
Also the Eco Nazi movement played a huge role when it picked up steam and later convinced and bought out the socialist Democrats obligating to place suffocating industry killing regulations that literally ran major plants outta Dodge (like out of the country) along with countless jobs leaving cities like Detroit, Buffalo, Bethlehem, Flint, Chicago, and others with massive rusting derelict shells in it's stead of a once thriving industrial community to fend for themselves without it's industrial base.
The American dream died for a lot of people.