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Re:Huge 'Dead Zone' Predicted in Gulf of Mexico by ValG on Thursday June 20, 2013 @01:29PM (#5913352)
Not really. This would be a prime example of a negative externality, or a cost which results from an activity or transaction and which affects an otherwise uninvolved party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality

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Re:Huge 'Dead Zone' Predicted in Gulf of Mexico by joonix on Thursday June 20, 2013 @02:10PM (#5913764)
Now fishermen will suffer so farmers can pull a profit. It's kind of the most simple form of unfairness. The kind that small children easily identify and question.
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Re:Huge 'Dead Zone' Predicted in Gulf of Mexico by dsuth on Thursday June 20, 2013 @06:33PM (#5915382)
It's confusing that the only externality considered in the article or in the HN comments so far is "effect on fisheries".

Coastal regions are (typically) teaming with life of all kinds. I can live without people getting fresh fish quite as often as they're used to. I can't swallow destroying entire ecosystems out of wilful ignorance quite so easily.

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