How important is the need to balance preventing or reducing environmental health threats to societal goals including economic well-being?

RES 402: Module 4–Essay

patnogenicity or certain environments

Are specific patterns of human social interaction within those environments to blame for the pathological environment? (for example cars we drive cause pollution)

Does the rising environmental health toll reflect heightened human awareness (i.e. we are tracking and making correlations of cause and effect) or perhaps it is due to increased vulnerability to such risks?

What factors account for the trends related to the pathological environment?

How important is the need to balance preventing or reducing environmental health threats to societal goals including economic well-being?

For a good laugh and to prepare you for this assignment, I suggest you read at least the first paragraph of this essay:
Guerrini, A. (1990). THE PATHOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT. The Eighteenth Century, 31(2), 173-179. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41467748.