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this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2026
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If we can change what things cost then it demonstrates the market isn't natural. The problem we're running into here is that the market and politics are intertwined, so the market can set the prices by lobbying the government to change what things cost.
So you have to defeat the market first before we can actually set prices to include the real costs of carbon emissions.
The cost would ideally just be the actual or true cost including the environmental impact as best as that can be calculated. You are right though that wealth and power are not indistinct and corporations use their wealth to increase the externalization of costs of their services or products to maximize their immediate profits. The intention of a government is to police the market, not the other way around. Our problem with humanity committing a slow suicide is that it's reversed.
Cost isn't always measured in dollars. The problem with how we externalize the costs is by looking at it from a money perspective.
We're racking up an absolutely enormous environmental debt on margin, and we are not preparing at all to repay that debt.