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Not really, you don't. Because you can't control the wind. If pollution blows in from china onto the land, how exactly can you enforce your right?


You can petition China using the various international forums available.


Okay, and if a meteor filled with radioactive substances crashes into your land, where pollution is forbidden?


Acts of nature are obviously not attributable, the same with a volcano eruption. If it's caused by humans attribution is possible.


Okay, so how far do your rights extend? If you have a right to no pollution on your land, how far can the nearest road be built?


I believe moving the goalposts from "water pollution" to "no pollution on land" isn't helping anything on the discussion, just makes it murkier.

The right to no water pollution comes from a moving resource, water passes by a property and goes to another, land doesn't move and hence could have less strict rules.




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