A very small number of people profit from the externalities of pollution, such that emitting pollutants makes improves the profits of businesses they own & operate with low social intelligence or narcissistic disregard for the health or wellness or wellbeing of other people with the vile maxim "all for us (elite) and nothing for anyone else as their guiding principle.
Profitable business emit pollution to subsidize their profits, because responsible preventing the release of toxic emissions expensive, requiring advanced emissions capturing technology, like DPF & Urea injection exhaust control of Diesel Engine emissions. Many pollutants would not exist if it was cheap & easy to retrofit power plants & oil refineries or chemical processing plants with eco-safe emissions control & capture systems, but such systems required capital expenses, engineering, upgrading or there is no free lunch in physics.
To improve anything requires people to invest time, energy, focus, money, collaboration, intelligence, skills, gifts, abilities, with a common goal, with organization, and there are so many different problems to focus on, it can be hard to narrow the scope of where to invest government funding for example, where the biggest possible difference can be achieved. Sadly the private markets of the world fail to invest in the cleanest technology, nuclear energy for example, the cleanest safest way of making electricity, because a new nuclear power plant runs a capital cost deficit for up to 20 years before making & selling electricity to utility customers, but also have the highest long term return on investment, but investors are impatient & want quick returns because everyone running out of time alive.
Innovation means feasible cleaner technology that makes better products & services while also reducing emissions of toxic pollutants or side reaction products. We can learn a lot from biochemistry via biomimicry to remove pollution from air & water to clean up the environments of Earth of previously emitted heavy metals & toxic acid mine drainage, that would be with GMO bacteria and yeast & reusable polymer beads capture systems. We can improve all industrial activity with smart cost effective solutions seeking problems today. In other words, we can make all human activities less polluting with more applied intelligence. Knowledge is power to improve anything, by applying skills and understand to solving problems. Knowing empowering because it shows people continually better ways of doing all things, to make better products & services that are eco-friendly & that do not harm or damage nature or people.
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