Pollution Point : Pollutants that can be absorbed by the environment and are temporary in nature (called fund pollutants) have little to no risk in medium to long term. e.g. All organic and natural "wastes". Short term Effect last mere days to weeks. Such Components are eventually broken down (maximum of months and in mere days in wet and humid environments).
Dumping in exess when natural waste is high in volume, i.e. that exceeds the natural capacity of the said eco system to absorb it will throw the balance off cycle. It happens at times most causes are natural (natural calamities introduction of news species). Even if by Humans, it is Natural, the Ecosystem adjusts itself. The problem begins when artificial things that do not occur in nature are created and dumped. Nature doesn't have the Mechanism to absorb that. If plastic grew on trees believe me (or Darwin) there would be an organism that would break it down into its basic constituents.
Societal Point : The Enlightened west is not free from Superstition, A large part of it is deadly superstitious. Sepatarion of Church and state has hidden this a fact. But yes they have achieved great environmental laws, Yet it its convenient to overlook the fact heat the currrent standards were not built in day. The condition of western rivers was much worse than what Ganges or any other river in India is today. I was largely because West had rapidly industrialized while the society was yet to catch up to the importance to environment, the Rhine in the 80s was much like what the yamuna is today. By today's standards it was a dump. Thames was no less during those days. Even today it isn't but... it has improved by huge standards. So what you see today is only reflection of a stage of development of the country, rivers will get cleaned up eventually, but it will take decades.
Also, though I'd like the term renaissance, western enlightenment term bestows some divinity to a series of occurrences that were mostly by chance, not by divine intervention.
Lastly, All "-isms and -anities" are bad, but to use Sati to Browbeat point of inferiority only the native culture to equate it with current lackings is not a valid argument. The "Enlightened west" also at one point in time used to burn "Witches, heathens and Pagans" at the stake, Try holding that as an equal to present day racism in the west, (which is nothing but the class superiority 'they' have, sounds familiar?) and other huge societal issues. All societal/religious evils were predominant when resources were less and scarce, after that centuries of opulence (1600 onwards) and access to cheap resources did play a part in Renaissance to Industrial revolution eventually leading to the west we see today. India, till late 60s, was fully agrarian, and is not even industrialized today.
Classes will remain in society, as caste or some other social division, there will never be equality but to grope towrds a better out come is a collective objective, egalitarian utopia is a myth. India is trying to do in mere decades, amidst the chaos of feeding 1 billion hungry mouths and resource scarcity, what Europeans has centuries to evolve. Birth Pangs of a new civilization is all around you, our lifetimes are merely a blink of an eye.
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