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by outside1234 1081 days ago
The argument should be that these externalities get priced into oil to help with climate change effects and transitioning to clean energy. The analog I think are cigarettes and how we have taxed them out of existence
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Sadly, the solution we adopted for cigarettes, namely letting them still profit by poisoning the children of the developing world, won't work for climate change as we share the same atmosphere with them.