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Originally Posted by PascalsWager
I'd assume the 'hidden' cost of air quality degradation due to CO2 and NO2 
Nothing social about it - its scientific fact that burning fossil fuels emit gasses that deplete ozone and generally degrade air quality.
Now, the tricky and loaded part comes when trying to quantify that cost. I wont even try, but I will admit there is a cost. |
But that is true with any human activty. There are always "negative externalities" to everything. The point is they balance out. For example, if a couple has sex, and a child results, which they can't afford to raise, the child goes on welfare, and we (society) all pay the cost of rasing the child. If that couple doesn't drive and doesn't contribute to "global warming" (read here I don't believe in man-made global warming - a different debate), then they are paying for my driving that does warm the globe. I pay for their child, they pay the extra cost of my gasoline. Fair is fair.