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Re:Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in tox... by DFHippie on Sunday August 11, 2019 @12:53PM (#20669032)
Sure. There's regulatory capture. But this particular problem, the externalization of costs, is a classic one solved by regulation rather than the free market.
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Re:Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in tox... by AnthonyMouse on Sunday August 11, 2019 @01:07PM (#20669120)
The problem where the pesticides are destroying native insect populations, sure. But not the problem where the tomatoes taste like nothing and have pesticide in them -- that's not an externality, it's an information asymmetry. And then it has the same problem in the legislature as the supermarket.
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