Social pollution isn't a new concept. In the 1970s the, um, I'll be charitable here and say "well meaning but somewhat less than perfect", welfare efforts of t

Social pollution isn't a new concept. In the 1970s the, um, I'll be charitable here and say "well meaning but somewhat less than perfect", welfare efforts of the 1960s were often compared to factories that churned out some product and patted themselves on the back for great work while ignoring the havoc wreaked on the local environment. Industrial pollution was a big deal in the 1970s so it's unsurprising that people made this comparison back then. A key point of the comparison was that these messes take a long time to clean up. You screw a generation out of stable families and father figures and, well, we're still dealing with that, the same way that we're still dealing with industrial pollution of decades past.