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Re:Risk of 'dead pool' looms at Colorado River meeting by throw0101c on Friday December 16, 2022 @06:57PM (#34022371)
> If they stop wanting meat companies will stop making meat.

If companies start paying the total costs (water, carbon)—including externalities—of their raw materials, and pass those costs onto consumers, perhaps things will rebalance.

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Re:Risk of 'dead pool' looms at Colorado River meeting by landemva on Friday December 16, 2022 @07:03PM (#34022417)
Consider having militaries do externality accounting. First obvious thing to discover is the engine pollution controls are deleted 'because war'.
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Re:Risk of 'dead pool' looms at Colorado River meeting by hexatin on Saturday December 17, 2022 @12:41PM (#34030108)
If this happened, I believe it’s most likely that the main immediate effect would be that low-income people could no longer afford meat, while middle- to high-income people (the largest contributors) would simply continue to consume meat almost as often as they already do at the higher price, since it is relatively price inelastic.
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