Polluted air, water, and soil may be good for profits. You're okay with that? Regulations to promote clean air, water, and land cost money. If we pretend there are no costs and consequences of pollution, then industries can let the public health system pay their costs. A simple matter of redistributed responsibility. And if the people who suffer cannot pay or fight the pollution, usually those living in lower socioeconomic areas, then they can simply pay with their lives. But the polluting industries will be better able to thrive.