"Pollution control" has long been problematic because, as time passed, it became obvious that pollution, the flow of mostly man-made toxins into the environment, was not even lessened, never mind eliminated by what boiled down to little more than keeping records. So, it looked like the word "control" was deployed as a palliative to assuage the concerns of people who don't know any better than to object to the "necessary" discomforts of modern existence. That is, if the air is to be "conditioned" in summer and winter, some people (asthmatics) are going to find breathing harder.
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