> If we believe we are responsible and are prepared to pay for it, in taxes, fines, lack of transport options, additional restrictions, higher costs... That se

> If we believe we are responsible and are prepared to pay for it, in taxes, fines, lack of transport options, additional restrictions, higher costs... That seems reductive in an inaccurate way. A consumer product which fully accounts for all negative externalities (or attempts to offset them via action) will cost more than one that doesn't, ceteris paribus. So "paying more" (for a less destructive product) is literally the cost of that much less destruction. Consumers can choose that choice, or not, and the vast majority don't (and can't). (Whether that price is ultimately paid in taxes, fines, or product cost is irrelevant, as they all reduce to the same thing)