Can’t help but feel like you’re overestimating the competency of the average voter in these effected areas; a breath after yours—though not necessarily your own—may condemn these people for being undereducated, out of touch with culture or subject to corporate grifters.

corporations taking hold of small local governments and passing laws that benefit them, unbeknownst to the locals living there, is hardly "consent"

Unless you are from China, your jurisdiction offshores to China as well.

Well, I find it a bit hypocritical: if those things are so bad, why to forbid manufacturing and not consumption? Otherwise you just pollute a place where people that have no say live.