But as pollution created more and more victims and the environmental movement gained steam, taxpayers forced to bear the social costs created by a minority of polluters no longer remained silent and business was forced to give in.
但長久累積的汙染使受害者日增，自力救濟、環保運動迭起，一直在替少數汙染者負擔社會成本的納稅人也不再沈默… …，凡此種種，都迫使業者節節退讓。