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When the cost is directly paid by the actor, it isn't an externality. It is the literal opposite of what externality means.


carbon emissions aren't currently paid for by the person paying for and using the electricity?


And pollution is usually not, or only partially, paid for by neither the energy producer nor the consumer. Thus it's an externality.




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