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Environmental Law A critical comparison of the effectiveness of pollution regulation in England and Canada Specifically Ontario with particular reference to water pollution

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This reflected the state of environmental scientific knowledge at the time as well as the ways in which the first generations of factories harmed the environment. It also reflected cultural and social reactions to the earliest forms of pollution: Air pollution is highly visible. While water pollution has arguably as many harmful effects on human and other living populations as does air pollution, for those generations living through the first historical onslaught of industrialization, it was the roaring smokestacks turning the air into toxic soup that were the most obvious signs of a changing world. (Of course, as shall be addressed later, no one area of pollution can be seen as separate from any other: The environment is an integrated whole and degradation of the air leaches over into degradation of the water and soil and biomass, with feedback loops all around.)


The particular sources of pollution that prompted the English Alkali Acts were indeed highly damaging to the local environment (Fred Aftalion. A History of the International Chemical Industry . [UOP, 11-13]). But as is often the case with environmental law, those who were on the receiving end of regulation were only the last in a long line