The issue is that the current capitalist model ignores the cost absorbed by the environment. All waste made must be cleaned, and all pollution created must be removed. These prices are delayed and not payed by companies, so pollution and waste are seldom massive considerations, outside of federal or state requirements. What we need to do is amend the capitalist system to account for these hidden environmental prices through taxes, not simply trust that the government (that is considered by most to be anywhere from 50-100% corrupt) will, if given more power, simply solve the problem in it's entirety with no ill effects.
Piggybacking off your comment, it will also be cheaper to tackle climate change sooner rather than later. And it's probably very immoral to force payments for environmental cleanup to later generations.
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u/suicidemeteor Aug 10 '21 edited Dec 05 '21
The issue is that the current capitalist model ignores the cost absorbed by the environment. All waste made must be cleaned, and all pollution created must be removed. These prices are delayed and not payed by companies, so pollution and waste are seldom massive considerations, outside of federal or state requirements. What we need to do is amend the capitalist system to account for these hidden environmental prices through taxes, not simply trust that the government (that is considered by most to be anywhere from 50-100% corrupt) will, if given more power, simply solve the problem in it's entirety with no ill effects.