I’ve started to wonder whether pollution is the right word and whether we should say it how it is: plain old-fashioned, ugly “theft”. If someone takes something from you without your permission - including the ability to fish for your supper or drink from your spring, then that fulfills to me the definition of theft. And the penalties should be commensurate.
If you wanna go down that road, "ecocide" or "genocide" may be more appropriate terms. The latter word is more difficult to argue, but one could make a point that there's a mismatch between who benefits more from climate change and pollution (the global north) and who suffers from it (the global south). That's one of the many good points Nabil Hassein makes in the talk "Computing, Climate Change, and all our Relationships" which i can only recommend.
