In Japan "there are more than 10,000 'petition consultant personnel' to handle complaints," he says. The protest tactics used in Japan during the 1970s were no less confrontational than ours now, but "they got things going on a normal track after five or ten years."
雖然有人懷疑企業主為地方做公共建設、補路修橋……，有買賣環境權的嫌疑，但中研院經濟所副研究員蕭代基以為，這和業主用錢來平息居民對汙染的抗議不可混為一談。