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Originally Posted by ba1025
My disgust with a comment about pollution being over rated comes from growing up in a time before the clean air and water act and seeing dead rivers and choked skies.
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Agree here. It is the huge increase in incomes that have made people care (e.g., I'm beyond subsistance living, and so now I care about my surroundings more).
We're seeing the same thing in China where people see that they will continue to grow, and so the tradeoff between growth and pollution is becoming more costly, i.e., they are beginning to lean towards potentially sacrificing some growth for better pollution standards.