Just to ponder, all polities go thru the same cycle, in that they pollute like h

Just to ponder, all polities go thru the same cycle, in that they pollute like hell during industrialization, then once they produce a sufficiently large middle class, the middle class objects to the pollution and the polity reduces pollution. In this sense, “cleanliness is a luxury of wealth”.

It’s just a very desirable luxury. That like all other luxuries, we tend to evolve into a consumer commodity. At which point we forget the process we went through to get there.