# Should we abolish the EPA?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [August 16, 2011, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-abolish-the-epa/592888 "2011-08-16T12:34:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-abolish-the-epa/592888/43 "2011-08-16T18:31:39Z")

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> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#):
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> I’m sorry, but I was under the impression this is the year 2011, not 1960-whatever it was. The climate (not temperature) is a lot different now than it was forty plus years ago.

Yes it is and why is that?

Because we have the EPA.

This is the same logic liberals use when they argue against prisons. We put a bunch of people in prison and the crime rate went down. So they argue that now that the crime rate has dropped there’s no reason to keep imprisoning people.

If you stop putting people in prison, the crime rate will go back up. And if you stop enforcing environmental laws, the pollution will come back.

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