The courts and the government have shown no great enthusiasm for closing down big factories run by major industrialists that have polluted rivers, denuded forests, depleted and poisoned ground water, and destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousand of people who depend on these resources for a living. . . . This is our in-house version of first world bullying in the global warming debate: i.e., We pollute, you pay.

Arundhati Roy, Power Politics