The marginal cost to society of reducing pollution increases with the increased use of pollution abatement because

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As more pollution abatement is undertaken, the remaining sources of pollution become more difficult and expensive to control. This is due to the fact that the most accessible and cost-effective abatement measures are used up first, and additional abatement measures become increasingly expensive to implement. Therefore, there are diminishing returns to abatement and the marginal cost of reducing pollution increases over time.

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