While we are not used to considering this possibility, pollution has some indirect benefits, since:
A) we obtain goods and services that make our life more convenient, even though we pollute in the process.
B) firms pollute the environment and thus charge us less than they would otherwise have to.
C) businesses receive a perverse satisfaction from polluting.
D) it benefits wildlife, which is displaced from urban areas.
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