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For those that are saying that government is never the answer...

Let's say my farmer neighbor is dumping chemicals that are leaching into my (drinking, well) groundwater. This can be proven in well water lab results.

How do you propose I get him to stop dumping these chemicals?

Let's pretend I have already asked him to stop and he told me to GTFO.

How?

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The thread on jury nullification reminded me of this, so I thought I would bring it up for discussion.
Bear with me, this is all from memory so it may not be absolutely perfect as far as the details go.
A while back we went to Virginia beach. While on the beach we came across a small building that was part museum, part education. It was mostly about the massive decline in the oysters. They showed all the technological advancements in oyster harvesting. New cages, new boats with winches, etc and they talked about how much more each person could take, but it was sustainable. It was very cool, made me want to go get some oysters.
But the water quality has changed and is changing in such a way oysters are being pretty much eradicated. The reason is fertilizer going into the water. So people changing the landscape way up in Pennsylvania and then spreading manure all over it for crops is killing the oysters in Virginia. Great for the Amish farmers in Pa who are fertilizing the water, very bad for oyster fishermen in Va and their offspring.
The people running the place also pointed out the houses on the edge of the bay with huge yards. Most of the yards looked like crap because of the crappy Virginia red clay soil. 2 of the houses looked great, the lady said they were certainly paying a lawn service to spray their lawn(on the edge of the water) with fertilizer and water. Along with god knows how many other people spraying their lawn with fertilizer.

Full disclosure, I'm a bit of a tree hugger. I prefer to err on the side of caution. I want the trees protected so my kids and their kids and your grandkids will have clean water to drink and  be able to hunt and kill stuff as humans are born to do, it's good for humans to get bloody.
I also believe we all could come to compromises most of us could live with and improve the quality of life for everybody if we could get the crazies to just shut up and stay out of it. But I don't suppose that is  going to happen, especially since politicians find us far more easy to control if we are emotionally unbalanced. Sucks for us.

So, should an Amish guy be allowed to fill in a hole with dirt if the result will be to poison the water?

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You call the authorities........you have no choice.

You can't let people get away with poisoning the ground and water like in your example.

Fuck them, they are selfish, criminal mentality pieces of shit IMHO.