The truth is that whenever large numbers of people get together, they have an impact on their environment, everything from air pollution, to noise pollution, to ugly lime green window shutters. If you don't like it, you have two choices, become dictator and minutely manage everyone else's life, or move someplace where there are not a lot of people. Having you move is by far the lesser of two evils. I didn't take a position. I find it hard to believe that it is never profitable to pollute in substantial quanitities.
Some industrial processes produce waste, for example.
If you are a Free-Market. Your belief that the extremely small amount of pollutants that come from a single person's car, give you some kind of right to control what kind of car that other person can buy. Why don't we mandate only electric lawn mowers and trimmers while were at it. The truth is that whenever large numbers of people get together, they have an impact on their environment, everything from air pollution, to noise pollution, to ugly lime green window shutters. If you don't like it, you have two choices, become dictator and minutely manage everyone else's life, or move someplace where there are not a lot of people.