Cheap Fossil Fuels via Externalities
Underpriced externalities keep dirty energy artificially competitive.
"Clean energy loses because dirty energy doesn't pay its bill."
What is Cheap Fossil Fuels via Externalities? Underpriced externalities keep dirty energy artificially competitive. Externality pricing is industrial policy.
Unpriced air, water, and climate damages.
Externality pricing is industrial policy.
Carbon pricing. Pollution-tied true-cost accounting.
Flip the incentive. Watch the side-effect move.
Underpriced externalities keep dirty energy artificially competitive. Caught in the wild: Unpriced air, water, and climate damages.
In the room: Externality pricing is industrial policy.
Counter-move from the Atlas: Carbon pricing.
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- Who benefits when Cheap Fossil Fuels via Externalities persists — and who pays the cost?
- People defend the status quo using the language of cheap fossil fuels via externalities.
- Decisions cluster around the easiest narrative rather than the strongest evidence.
- New data changes the slide deck but not the decision.
- Anyone naming the pattern is treated as the problem.
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Expensive off-range storage cannibalizes funds needed for on-range management.
Cheap, low-quality offsets let buyers claim neutrality without reducing emissions.
Voluntary commitments reward PR while deferring real abatement.
Branding recycling as personal duty shifts blame from producers of single-use packaging.
Subsidies favoring incumbent technologies distort capital allocation away from emerging options.
Penalizing landowners for hosting endangered species turns biological assets into liabilities.
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Greg McKeown's discipline of the disciplined pursuit of less but better.
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system.
The persistence of a state — not from preference, but from non-action.
Familiarity breeds approval.
We judge experiences by their peak moment and how they ended.
We choose to minimize the regret we anticipate — not the expected value.
Exempting a case from a rule for no principled reason.
False positives vs. false negatives.
AI strategy = decisions about which capabilities to build and where.
Game theory adjusted for how humans actually play — including fairness, reciprocity, and limited reasoning.
Working memory has limits.
Revenue from behavioral targeting structurally opposes user privacy.