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Sure, we don’t know all the externalities, but some of those externalities could be positive. The fact that we don’t know doesn’t mean the true public cost of e
by baddox 9y ago
Sure, we don’t know all the externalities, but some of those externalities could be positive. The fact that we don’t know doesn’t mean the true public cost of electricity is even higher than the market price.
- xg15 9y agoYes, you can say that about everything. "Maybe polluting the air and driving a mass extinction event has some surprising positive consequences we just don't know yet. We should go on and see if we discover them!" There are plenty of hints that we don't correctly account even for the known negative externalities. There are also incidents of new negative externalities showing up we hadn't known about before. I don't know about hints for positive externalities in the same order of magnitude.