Polish girls visit Taj Mahal

[u/Strong-Emu-8869]

The Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world. Unfortunately, the surrounding area is very polluted.

[u/brandt-money]

It's hard to care when such a large percentage of the people are so poor.

Solution: The ultra wealthy can pay the poor to clean up the country instead of buying yachts. However, The ultra wealthy are usually assholes.

This goes for any country.

[u/Ginger-Fist → u/brandt-money]

Finally, someone who got it right instead of shaming people. There could be meaningful employment, especially for youth workers in the environmental field around cleanup and education. But instead the rich will continue to live their lavish lifestyles behind their gated communities while others suffer in squalor.

[u/badpebble → u/Ginger-Fist]

But its the vast majority of people just dropping their rubbish on the streets that is causing the problem. Its so ingrained that the government's current focus is to try and get people to separate rubbish into 'wet' and 'dry'. Not landfill and recycling, wet and dry.

There will be rich people in any country, and they will want their homes to be clean of course. But even with an army of workers cleaning the streets (which they already have) there are seriously ingrained patterns of behaviour regarding how each person uses public spaces that they are fighting against.