>"...the bill always comes due..."
Yes. But it's __always__ the consumer that pays that bill. Increase in the cost of anything simply gets added to the price.
Yes. You might get manufactures to change. But the consumer is still the one who pays.
Yes. But it's __always__ the consumer that pays that bill. Increase in the cost of anything simply gets added to the price.
Yes. You might get manufactures to change. But the consumer is still the one who pays.
Furthermore, the cost of the bill is often exaggerated. Yes, retooling the manufacturers' plants to avoid externalizing environmental costs is a large one-time investment that will be passed on to the consumers. But that must be done to stop destroying our environment, and after that initial investment is paid off, the running cost of producing the goods will in almost all cases come back down to what it currently is, so the consumer price will come back down too.