re: The mass freakout over Bret Stephen's climate change article on NYT

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Still parroting rubbish I see. You have no clue how much those companies have internalized those costs

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Feel free to enlighten me wise guy!

Last I checked most of these companies have shareholders and shareholders are not keen on reducing profits simply because they want to be overly altruistic(unless there is a "goodwill" benefit) and internalize costs they produce but aren't currently being forced to. In fact CEO's have been sued by shareholders for far less.

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Your thinking is 30 years out of date on that side of the spectrum and you are woefully undereducated when it comes to the applied sciences here concerning "green" energy production. You are the type that's fooled into funding solar sidewalks and roads and you are unfortunately too common.

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I'm the type that made it through Micro and Macro econ 101 and passed the test that dealt with various types of market failures and distortions. Seems I am the only one in this conversation to at least get that far.

There is nothing "out of date" about recognizing when a marketplace has failed to address external costs. Then pointing out how that failure distorts the market and the price of goods.

I'm someone that supports functioning economic markets, not sure what your schtick is.