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When the cost is directly paid by the actor, it isn't an externality. It is the literal opposite of what externality means.

• drdeca 6y ago
  carbon emissions aren't currently paid for by the person paying for and using the electricity?
• detaro 6y ago
  And pollution is usually not, or only partially, paid for by neither the energy producer nor the consumer. Thus it's an externality.