Talk:NIMBY
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Don't wanna get involved until it's sorted but don't forget the Guantanamo relocation. thing. yummy
& honey(or marmalade) 16:55, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
- You ruined the surprise of what a future article for my Bored Stiff Month project was going to feature! Damn your intelligence, Toast! --Irrational Atheist (talk) 16:58, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
- Should this mention wp:Cape_Wind? One of the biggest problems with the project is exactly whose view it would be affecting. Jack Hughes (talk) 17:01, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
- NIMBY is generally reserved for arguments that something should be built to benefit a community, so long as it isn't built near the community. Prisons are getting overpopulated, so there should be a new jail built! Just it shouldn't be built near my neighborhood, where I shop, by my office, etc. NIMBY became popular in the 70s and 80s with the want to build more nuclear power plants, but 3-Mile and Chernobyl made too many people not want nuke power anywhere near them. Just get them the cheap and plentiful power it provides. --Irrational Atheist (talk) 17:08, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
- Could it also involve an event occurring in someone's neighborhood? Here in Pittsburgh, there is talk about holding the trial of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad here. People are saying that "I'm not real comfortable having the trial here n' 'at. (pardon the Pittsburghese) What if the terrorists got something planned? Have it in New York or something." To me that seems like a fitting NIMBY situation. Same thing happened when we hosted G8 last year. Aboriginal Noise Oh, what a lovely tea party! 18:55, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
- NIMBY is generally reserved for arguments that something should be built to benefit a community, so long as it isn't built near the community. Prisons are getting overpopulated, so there should be a new jail built! Just it shouldn't be built near my neighborhood, where I shop, by my office, etc. NIMBY became popular in the 70s and 80s with the want to build more nuclear power plants, but 3-Mile and Chernobyl made too many people not want nuke power anywhere near them. Just get them the cheap and plentiful power it provides. --Irrational Atheist (talk) 17:08, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
- Should this mention wp:Cape_Wind? One of the biggest problems with the project is exactly whose view it would be affecting. Jack Hughes (talk) 17:01, 2 February 2010 (UTC)