• @Aceticon@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Most “cost effective” things are only that if you don’t count Negative Externalities.

      The obvious example is fossil fuels.

      Yeah sure, if everybody else is enduring and/or paying for the bad side effects of the way somebody conducts an economic activity, it’s “cost effective” for those doing that activity that way.