Make the Polluter Pay

Make the Polluter Pay
 Eliminate profit from degradation of our common wealth. If polluters don’t pay, they have an economic incentive to keep polluting. If polluters pay an accurate price for the social and ecological costs of their actions they have an incentive to seek out less impactful (and thus more cost effective) ways to do things.

Instead of: Companies profiting from passing the cost of pollution on to society and future generations.

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 * Wikipedia: Polluter pays principle

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