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The value of a human life has dropped by $1 million under the Bush Administration. Stephen Colbert explores the impact on environmental regulation and the upside for industry.
“The Environmental Protection Agency uses numbers like this to decide whether or not to regulate things like pollution. And five years ago they estimated that a human life was worth $7.8 million dollars. But recently they lowered that to $6.9 million dollars.
That’s right: under the Bush administration, human life has become a million dollars cheaper (How does he do it? Volume!). This is great news, because the lower the value of human life, the less it pays to protect it with regulation. That may be why last week the EPA announced its decision not to regulate greenhouse gases. It’s just not worth it with human life at such bargain-basement prices (Everyone must go!). But we can get those prices lower. By devaluing life, they’ve made it less likely to regulate water and air quality…and the worst the water and air quality get, the less life is worth living. Which further devalues life, which makes it less likely to regulate water and air quality. It’s like the circle of life (Minus the life).
That’s great. While they may have lowered the value of a person, the EPA has given us something worth a lot more. Because a human life is worth $6.9 million dollars (and dropping). Gaming the system to protect industry from safety regulations: priceless.”
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