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Some ecosystems were never good places to build homes, too. Once-in-250-year floodplains are still floodplains.
It's hard to make someone pay after the fact.
Usually people cannot be prosecuted of things that were not crimes when they commited the thing.
And in that case, only the lawyers win. Remember there was a will that was battled for 190 years, iirc, in England and when it was settled, there wasn't anything left for the claimants.
The oil companies should pay for the damage they did heating homes at our request?
No, the oil companies should pay for the damages they helped cover up