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externalized costs

The Externalizing Machine

October 12, 2022October 11, 2022 by James R. Martin

What externalizing of costs does is it manufactures ill-health in ecosystems, societies, cultures — the world. And modern governments are not only not standing up against this destructive extraction, but are deliberately fanning its flames, supporting and encouraging it.

Categories Economy, Environment, Society Tags externalized costs, extractive economies, neoliberal ideology Leave a comment

The IMF Tells a Half-Truth

December 15, 2020May 20, 2015 by Richard Heinberg

On May 18 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report titled “How Large are Global Energy Subsidies?” The question is a bit misleading…

Categories Energy Tags economic growth, energy subsidies, externalized costs, negative externalities Leave a comment

Peak Meaninglessness

December 15, 2020March 5, 2015 by John Michael Greer

Last week’s discussion of externalities—costs of doing business that get dumped onto the economy, the community, or the environment, so that those doing the dumping can make a bigger profit—is, I’m glad to say, not the first time this issue has been raised recently.

Categories Society Tags ecosystem services, externalized costs, limits to growth Leave a comment

The Externality Trap, or, How Progress Commits Suicide

December 15, 2020February 26, 2015 by John Michael Greer

Economic life in the industrial world these days can be described, without too much inaccuracy, as an arrangement set up to allow a privileged minority to externalize nearly all their costs onto the rest of society while pocketing as much as possible the benefits themselves.

Categories Economy Tags externalized costs, technological progress 1 Comment

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