Another reason for the constant conflicts, says Lin Chun-yi, a professor of biology at Tunghai University, is that "the government hasn't allowed the public to feel it's achieved concrete results in combating pollution." It has been nearly ten years since the first incident of environmental civil disobedience occurred back in 1981.
但並不表示群眾一定沒有任何判斷常識。在後勁，「就發生當初為收集政治資源主張激烈手段，結果得其所願的成員，由於態度丕變，被後勁反五輕居民劃清界線」，高承恕說。