It is hard to se the long and short of it when the Rochester Gas & Electric built a glass vault vessel 10 meters from the childrens swings behind the fence of a school playground in order to stor radioactive waste. Or 30 year steel barrels to dump nuclear waste in the ocean that remains deadly for 1 billion years. Or even reactor containment vessels that are now 40 years beyond their viable safe life times.

The people who built these things are now dead.

The people who injected water mixed with nerve gas deep under Colorado Springs causing earthquakes just like the fracking earthquakes are now dead.

Short term decisions have long term trends of death and disease.
There are places in the US and Russia where you can collect Pu with a beach shovel. If you are stupid.

Short term profits vs long term is still the corporate standard,
and that makes us all stupid wall st included.