When the people of Houchin took to the streets in protest a few years ago, many of them said, "If we'd realized we could have done this before, we'd have marched a long time ago.
若事情再沒有解決，或有人站出來聯合，大家才會向汙染製造者抗議。這也是為什麼台大化工系教授施信民認為，「民眾其實是很有『耐性』的」。