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this post was submitted on 29 May 2024
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Yeah, IF only the poor stopped polluting we could save everyone.
He's arguing that if pollution was priced in, the market would optimize to find ways to reduce it. Which is true, except that:
It's not exactly a novel idea, it makes sense in the theoretical scenario where we would have effective regulation. Which is also precisely the problem to begin with.