After the guy dumped dirt on the memorial, I feel like this is pretty poor optics even if it’s something the City needs to move forward on right now.

  • Jesse@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    All valid points. My take would be though with regards to your third point. The problem with MMIWG is there’s been too many ‘statements’ and not enough actual productive action taken. And this would be the opposite of actual productive action, spending 150-200 million dollars to comb through approx 60 000 tons of landfill over 3 years while putting peoples safety at risk to maybe have barely a minuscule chance at recovering what is now, tragically, likely an unrecognizable pile of organic matter. I can understand emotionally why the families want to anyway, but it’s just not a responsible use of time and effort, let alone money. That said, if the gov’t says that money and effort is better spent elsewhere, I would hold them to that, and say that they take that dollar amount and actually put it towards other, more helpful MMIWG causes.