Billionaires living on an exclusive island near Miami are at the center of a heated debate over sewage disposal. With no system in place, they’ve proposed sending their waste to a nearby town, but the deal comes with a hefty price tag.

Original article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/indian-creek-surfside-billionaire-sewage.html

Without the paywall: https://archive.li/HrE38

Alternative: https://gizmodo.com/billionaire-island-where-bezos-lives-lobbies-state-gov-to-flush-its-poop-down-neighbor-towns-pipes-2000615795

Note

While the news is concerning, it seems Daily Galaxy had all the hallmarks of a content mill aping more legit sources. I had no idea because I follow a lot of RSS feeds and this had been sitting there for a while now. I choose it for the science stuff. Sorry. I honestly wasn’t aware.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      18 hours ago

      If it’s any consolation, I can show you something similar to potentially swap in which actually is written by experts. The Conversation is always written by subject-matter experts (usually professors of the subject) and covers the same breadth of topics. The Conversation is basically what the Daily Galaxy wishes it were, and it’s one of my favorite items on my feed.

      • Tony Bark@pawb.socialOPEnglish
        6·
        15 hours ago

        Thanks. I actually follow those guys!

        I should mention that around the time of tripping upon and posting this article, I did catch their post about US supposedly investing in a carbon capture machine pretty close by on my feed reader. It seemed oddly out of place given recent events. Not to mention combined with all the other niche or local outlets I follow, some of which are specifically about renewable technologies.

        So, yeah, alarm bells were already ringing.