Question

pollution isthe price of progress? who in fact pays the price? explain the moral and the economic issues raised by the assertion. what are the connectionsbetween economic progress and development, on the one hand and pollution controls and environmental protection on the other?

Answer 1

From the given case study I have found out that the poor are the ones that are mostly being considered to pay the price of pollution that comes from the industrial plants. It is not a quite easy price that the people in the case study pay for pollution as they are faced with things such as infant mortality of about ten percent higher, their blood cell becomes lower than the usually blood cell count, and this is mostly on the people that work on the various factories around brazil, another price comes in from the various residents who suffer from respiratory diseases, they are about thirteen thousand.

In this case study, the people of Cubatão pay the price of pollution from the industrial plants. Theprice they pay includes a ten percent higher infant mortality rate, lower white-blood-cell count in factory workers and the thirteen thousand residents suffering from a respiratory disease. There are two sides to this argument. The first one, which I stand behind, is that it is morally wrong to target poor communities as the prime location for these industrial plants that produce high levels of pollutants. Many of these people from these poor communities cannot afford to relocate to a safer environment as was the case in Cubatão. These companies target these lower income areas because they know that they do not have the resources to do anything about the poisons that are being dispersed into the air that they breathe