[bornonmars]

Wait a second, we need a revolution?

We all agree on the negative effects of those externalities, but pricing them in before completing the transition to sustainable systems would only make resources MUCH less affordable for the end-consumer - you, me and everyone else, given the basic needs those goods fulfill.

[AndrewDucker]

Except that other, more sustainable, systems would be financially viable _now_ if they were competing with the true cost of the current ones.

[rayiner]

That's the point. When people in rich parts of states can get artificially cheaper power through coal plants that poison the poor people in the state, the incentive to move to alternatives is diminished.