Your assuming a specific value exists for environmental pollution.  Instead, by it&#x27;s vary nature people chose a completly arbitrary value.<p>Abstractly, the environment is clearly worth more than every other thing in the world combined. EX: If 6.9 billion people needed to die to maintain a breathable atmosphere that would be a simple choice.  How to messure lower levels of harm is what&#x27;s subjective.<p>PS: Consider burning fossil fuels has directly lowered the amount of free oxegen in the atmosphere.  There is not enough fossils fuel know to exist for this to be a real problem.  But in a world where there was it would be a much more direct survival issue.