In article om,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

This isn't just about having a place to live that looks nice. It's about
not killing ourselves and every other living thing around us.

I agree with you more than you might believe, Pete. I don't want a
polluted world for my kids -- period.

My main point is simply that you (and I, for that matter) should be
glad that all the under-employed, under-educated folks who are facing
economic catastrophe because of what we've done are truly ignorant of
the situation. If they ever wake up to the fact that they've been
thrown into the under-class in exchange for cleaner air and water, they
might grow hostile to your cause.

You're both missing the fact that new industries could have been created
to allow the old businesses to operate by mitigating the polution
sources. The polution sources simply chose to move to where they could
continue the old ways or shut down completely rather than adapt to
cleaner methods.