While I agree civil rights and pollution have almost nothing in common, civil rights and consumer rights are also pretty unrelated. The larger umbrella category

While I agree civil rights and pollution have almost nothing in common, civil rights and consumer rights are also pretty unrelated. The larger umbrella category encompassing them is "Pro-individual vs. pro-collective policy," which I assumed we were discoursing under because you brought up civil rights in the context of consumer rights. Under that umbrella, one can certainly discuss tradeoffs a society makes between "Better for the individual" vs. "better for the collective" to move to somewhere the society wants to be economically. Where did "civil rights" stand when the US was employing children to operate textile machines or had no 40-hour work-week protections?