It is a little hard to understand the myopia here. Anybody who participates on this forum is wealthy beyond the dreams of most people in history. You sleep warm at night. You are seldom uncomfortably warm or cold due to your ability to condition your climate. You eat well, seldom if ever wanting for food. You have fabulous magical toys that allow you to communicate instantly around the world, and have the ability to travel and see the person you are communicating with in a few days. Your life expected life span exceeds all but a privileged few in history, and that lifespan is less likely to be marred by sickness than in any prior era. By almost any measure of wealth things could hardly be better. Those things are actually also true for many of the people you are feeling sorry for. Ask the people in the waste village if they would rather be back in the midst of the "Great Leap Forward", or suffering in one of the periodic famines that were the rule during the pre-Mao period. Also I suspect that many of the participants in the forum have been self exposed to "horrific quantities" of many of the pollutants identified through their hobby activities. I know that I have had so much lead, mercury and cadmium exposure, just to name a few, that the popular press would have you believe that I should be dead and my children horribly deformed. Strangely, my health is good, and my children and grandchildren are both healthy and normal.
And then you blame greed for pollution, mostly greed in others.
There are really only two possible solutions to the "problems" identified. Income redistribution (making the 1% less wealthy so that the rest may have a bit more) is not one of them. Either a dramatic reduction in population, or a dramatic reduction in consumption (read standard of living) are the only real solutions. No one wants to be first in line for either of those solutions.