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- From: gb@cup.portal.com (Greg A Buechler)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment,ca.environment,ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Save the Planet and the Economy at the Same time!
- Message-ID: <72137@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 12:05:37 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- I'l add my $0.02 worth on this one.
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- If we were to charge the full economic cost to ALL items used, mined,
- manufactured, etc. we wouldn't be in the present condition at all.
-
- Not just autos, everything is to some degree paid for at costs far
- below their tru economic cost if you factor in the environmental cost/
- damage.
-
- Let's use another example, lets say homes.
-
- The cost of lumber should include the full cost of extraction, reforest-
- ation, the polution by the trucks moving the lumber, the waste from the
- mills, etc. Nails should cost far more. Wallboard, wiring, (do you get
- the point yet?)
-
- Bottom line here..... If we want to curb the destruction of this planet
- caused by us, we have to incur the true cost of an
- item, including the full environmental cost.
-
- gb
-
- ps If you really want to clean up the place, then show me how I can make
- a profit doing so and I will run over all the environmentalists
- because they won't be able to get out of my way fast enough.
-