Externality -A consequence
of an economic activity that is experienced by unrelated third
parties
Silt-filled
rivers are no concern of those whose livelihoods depend on the timber
harvest
Heavy
metals leaching after the mine closed is not part of their successful
business plan
Product
and packaging disposal or reclamation has no place in an accurate
profit model
Emission
restrictions are useless job-killing taxes, not production expenses
or investments
Reneging on pension and bond obligations permits us to be
competitive going forward
We need not consider public services in our housing and
commercial development plans
Requiring the cleanup of acid-laced lakes is an unfair
competitive burden on coal power plants
We must remain free to emit all our new compounds with no
responsibility for unknown effects
Air and water are inexhaustible free goods available to all
producers and consumers
Industrial diseases are basically unintended, but necessary,
by-products of our good progress
Business production planning naturally seeks to avoid the
extra expense of waste disposal
Any mandated expenses distort the free market, but our
government subsidies are a necessity
Prevention may be important, but our profit model only
requires treatment and drugs
Social programs are horribly inefficient yet insurers cannot
compete with government healthcare
We rightfully mine fossil water royalty-free to maintain our
short-term agricultural profits
Agribusiness firms do not bear responsibility for the runoff
that taints our mother’s milk
Ignoring externalities lowers consumer prices and gives
producers competitive advantage
Your typically misguided regulation costs too much money and
sacrifices too many jobs
Waste disposal firms derive no revenue from proper
separation and safe storage practices
Mountain top removal justifiably focuses solely on the
efficient extraction of the valuable coal
Rational consumers purchase based on benefits to themselves,
not on some hazy future
A sustainable ocean harvest means fewer profits and smaller
dividends this quarter
Soil degradation boosts short-term bottom line and earns
CorproAg managers fat bonuses
Our responsibility for the fertilizers and weed killers we
produce ends at their point of sale
We are, indeed, stewards of this earth but our profit-bound
businesses certainly are not
There is no recourse for the regrettable respiratory effects
of diesel-powered transport
The loss of songbirds is sad yet inevitable collateral
damage of a healthy consumerism
Disposal of cheap, unskilled, young labor has no reportable
downsides for globalization
Deplorably, salmon fishing ends because desert farmers need
all of the polluted river water
That the rainbow-hued jungle birds take up mercury from the
gold mines is merely a real shame
Real estate developers bear no financial burdens for smog,
traffic and loss of watersheds
Should your statutes become too burdensome, our production
will move where rules are lax
Dead zones at our river mouths are too complicated to stop
and too expensive to restore
We need not book any ill-effects of our canned developments
on non-renewable tourist areas
Deposits on recyclables are foolish socialist meddling in
lawfully completed transactions
Neither government nor business bears the responsibility for
the environment that sustains both
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