As a result, our waterways
experience less pollution from farm run - off.
Not exact matches
Creatures that are exposed to environmental influences like
pollution also
experience accelerated evolution, although the effect is
less dramatic.
Ozone seemed to stunt the trees: Saplings in rural areas, where there was
less pollution but more ozone, were smaller than urban trees, which
experienced dirtier air and lower ozone levels.
Different racial and ethnic groups also eat different diets, live in neighborhoods with more or
less pollution,
experience different levels of poverty, and are more or
less likely to smoke tobacco, all of which could also impact their health outcomes.
Having said that, i believe that China for example is really
experiencing the kind of
pollution that US did in the 50 and 60's, and that they are better equipped to move more forcibly and quicker than the US did, one reason is that no rational being would deploy techninology that is outdated,,, they would leapfrog to the newwer technology when building infrastructure... One might be able to argue that it is cheaper and more beneficial for developed to support that... That and the belief i have that they may not, as you point, want to experihence the consumption addiction that US incurred... (Note; the Europeans are substantially
less than the US per capita emissions, a benefit of greater foresight — evidence that this is not a «western» problem