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--- name: Pollution slug: pollution type: systemic process status: running version: 4.2.1 released: "1760-01-01" maintainer: industrial civilization dependencies: - extraction - combustion - indifference - scale license: Commons (involuntary, irrevocable) tags: - environment - entropy - externality - legacy-system - unintended-consequence ---
The cost of making things, subtracted from the ledger and deposited somewhere no one is watching.
A process generates output. Some of that output has nowhere sanctioned to go. It finds somewhere anyway: air, water, soil, lungs, the bloodstream of a child three counties downwind. The process continues. The output accumulates. Nothing in the core loop checks for this. It is not a bug in the traditional sense because no one filed the ticket.
The mechanism is simple: externalization. Move the harm off the balance sheet and into the commons. Repeat at industrial scale. Let time do the compounding.
| Bug ID | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PLT-001 | Disproportionate load on low-income nodes | Won't fix |
| PLT-002 | Cancer cluster attribution too slow to trigger rollback | Open |
| PLT-003 | Ocean microplastic layer now load-bearing | In progress |
| PLT-004 | grief accumulates in affected communities with no release valve | Acknowledged |
| PLT-005 | Cleanup costs exceed original profit by 10x to 100x | By design |
ERR_AIR_QUALITY_THRESHOLD_EXCEEDED // Ambient; ignore if indoors
ERR_AQUIFER_CONTAMINATION // Irreversible; see migration docs
ERR_CORAL_BLEACHING // Cosmetic at first; then structural
ERR_REGULATORY_CAPTURE // Governance module compromised
WARN_CHILDREN_BLOOD_LEAD_ELEVATED // Non-critical per 1970s build spec
FATAL_TIPPING_POINT_CROSSED // No handler registered
Pollution does not run alone. It requires:
Note: pollution has been observed running on socialist, colonial, and pre-industrial architectures. This is a cross-platform process.
Q: Can it be cleaned up? A: Partially. Some instances respond to intervention. Others have achieved permanence.
Q: Who is responsible? A: The maintainer list is long, contested, and heavily lawyered.
Q: Is there a version without this behavior? A: Early builds suggest yes. Restoration is theoretically possible. No release date confirmed.