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Should Puerto Rico pay back the benefits it received from fossil fuels, like increased tourism from airplanes, and for allowing cars and combustible engines on
by purpleblue 2y ago
Should Puerto Rico pay back the benefits it received from fossil fuels, like increased tourism from airplanes, and for allowing cars and combustible engines on the island? Are they going to get rid of ICE vehicles immediately now?
Are we going to start filing lawsuits against sugar manufacturers for all of the health issues they caused? What about manufacturers of fatty foods? Oh wait, are fatty foods good for you or bad for you? Fatty foods were bad for you in the 80s and 90s but now the science is showing the opposite.
This entire lawsuit is nonsense.
- keybored 2y agoThe benefits that Puerto Rico has enjoyed are probably comparable to that of mainland America. While the downsides are presumably worse. Which is I guess whence the lawsuit.
- n2d4 2y agoNo, they shouldn't pay back the "benefits", because they already paid for the fuels. No market failures there. There is a very obvious market failure with the downsides of fossil fuels however (negative externalities), and Puerto Rico claims said companies willingly misled the public about those — that absolutely is reason for a lawsuit.
- WillDaSilva 2y ago> Are we going to start filing lawsuits against sugar manufacturers for all of the health issues they caused? Like with the fossil fuel industry, the sugar industry also invested heavily into misleading the public about how damaging their product is. With that in mind, it seems at least somewhat reasonable for governments to file lawsuits against them to punish them, and to recoup some of the lost value due to their negative externalities.