a messed up thing i've noticed here and there.

Curious if it applies here as well. A given industry pollutes a given environment to exploit some value producing resource at scale. It pollutes processes and regulations as well as the physical environment.

process and regulatory pollution is really sticky. metastasizes with the bureaucracy. Does this track?

If so, I think the fields may be easier to remediate than the incentive substrate that spawned this situation in the first place.