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Comment by SJC_Hacker

1 year ago

They might take care of their land, but they don’t generally care what happens to other peoples land. So excess fertilizer creating dead zones downstream? Well sucks to be them I guess. Markets are not good at pricing in externalities such as those

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WalterBright  1 year ago

A proper function of government is to internalize the externalities (with fines or taxes).

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