Probably because they would have allowed the fly ash to escape into the atmosphere instead of trying to clean it up.
Key word there is "trying" (only 3% has been cleaned up so far), not to mention that it was preceded by an attempt to cover it all up and claims that the air wasn't toxic.
Of course Japan was going to have a recession in the 1920s. Japan's major exports were luxury goods like silk. After WWI nobody had the money to buy luxuries, and at the end of 1929 the Great Depression hit, which only worsened the situation. And I'd like to point out that Japan was imperialistic well before WWI. The Russo-Japanese War was fought in 1905 over Machuria as part of their imperialistic agendas. Japan joined the allies in WWI so that they could get Germany's Asian processions and the resources they had.
Nonsense. Japan was undergoing its recession while countries such as the US were in full boom and very much in demand of luxury goods. It was undergoing the worst of its own depression long before the Great Depression even began in the US.
Japan was imperialistic before the 1920s, but not on the same scale that it was afterwards. Before, it had been a method of proving itself to the western powers. After, it was a necessity to keep Japan's fragile economy going.
I'm not talking about industry here. I'm talking about natural resources. Germany may be resource rich in some areas, but not all of them and it definitively did not have enough farmland to feed its entire population. Germany has always been vulnerable to blockades, which is why the German–Soviet Credit Agreements were signed despite the hatred that the two countries and their ideologies.
Germany was resource rich in terms of coal, and it had sufficient industry to trade for what it didn't have.
When War Socialism was introduced in Germany, what it served to do was actually increase consumption of resources early in the war by imposing maximum prices on essential goods (in this case, food). This meant the German people had no food shortages at the beginning of the war, but as the war dragged on longer than intended food was rapidly depleted. Furthermore, restrictions on trade and production made it less worthwhile for a man to work making food when he could only sell it at certain places, for low prices, to certain people. The fact that it was introduced before Germany's capabilities of importing were completely restricted via the entry of Italy and Romania into the war didn't help, either. Germany itself certainly didn't have the food production necessary to last the entire war, but even trade with the continental members of the Central Powers would have been sufficient, and without War Socialism the people of Germany would have had at least enough food to get by on a daily basis.
Another problem is that several of the agrarian communities of Germany and Austria Hungary basically cut themselves off from the starving cities when food was in high demand, as they saw that hoarding their food was more worthwhile then selling it all at a loss and having less for themselves.
I've noticed that people who say the government is completely inefficient and wastes tons of money are always the same people who will defend the ridiculous oodles of money that get spent on the Department of Defense.
Don't bother reading my posts or anything, just skim over them, stamp me with a "
REACTIONARY CAPITALIST PIG" logo, and attack me for views I don't hold.
For GreatJustice's benefit:
There was a hole in the bottom of the Sea (and the government for once didn't have the means to do anything about it, and left it to the private sector to fix it until the government had to bring out a $20 billion dollar stick to make them do something effective other than PR campaigns]
Its not like the building of that rig had anything at all to do with the
DWRRA or anything
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