Pollution, How bad is it? Options

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I'm trying to get a bead on pollution in Shadowrun. There's a current thread with a side discussion on drinking the waters in Puget Sound. An earlier thread on food seemed to have people who took it as assumed that hunting, fishing, and growing your own crops was dangerously unhealthy.

I'm trying to find evidence one way or the other in Shadowrun and all I'm seeing is that nothing much has changed. There are healthy areas, polluted overpopulated areas, and people trying to clean us their mess. There are clearly Toxic Zones (Arsenal 167). The Sioux have Commerce City, but otherwise are very eco-friendly. Nyamkopon has no air-pollution, but both Tenochtitlán and Great Britain are mentioned (repeatedly) for their high levels of pollution. Fishing is still going on in both Runner's Companion and SR4A.

Don’t forget that these cities can make their utopia because there isn’t that much pollution around them to begin with. These bionic
towers with all their biotech gadgets could easily succumb to high levels of pollution when built in cities like London or Tenochtitlan.

With rising pollution of the environment around the globe, the demand for effective cleanup tools is high, and hazmat (hazardous material) drones have proven to be the best choice.

While cities around the world struggle to deal with the pervasive threats of toxins and pollution, the city of Venice finds its canals and city clean for the first time since the 17th Century