Center for International Environmental Law👨🔬 That’s why applying the #PolluterPaysPrinciple is also about protecting #Science.
When polluters are held accountable, independent science can inform policy without intimidation, manipulation, or #CorporateCapture.
#PFAS pollution is a growing crisis. Solving it requires coordinated action — & serious funding. The costs are massive, yet communities & ecosystems are left paying the bill 💸.
👉 That’s where the #PolluterPaysPrinciple (PPP) comes in: those responsible must cover the damage 👈
The #PolluterPaysPrinciple is over 50 years old — but the #PFAS crisis shows how vital it still is, and how costly weak or missing enforcement can be.
🔴 Today, PFAS clean-up and health costs are staggering, rising, and largely paid by citizens — not polluters.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴#NationalizeBigOil
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...(What the study only touches on peripherally is that energy demand is also growing disproportionately.)
In fact, I'd argue that the positive incentive and drive that eminated from the Paris COP far exceeded any negative external shock in recent decades, maybe comparable to the negative one of the 1970's #OilPriceCrisis in magnitude.
https://eciu.net/analysis/reports/2025/10-years-post-paris
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...#StromkosteAusgleichsgesetz2025:
https://kontrast.at/strompreis-gaspreis-oesterreich-regierung/
And these "shocks" do not necessarily have to be negative: as the #ECIU in London recently analyzed in a report, ten years after COP 2015, the world is in some respects already further ahead than it “should” be in 2035: 41% #renewableenergy vs. a forecast 38% in 2025...
Mögliche Preiseingriffe, Sozialtarif beim Strom: So will Regierung die Energiepreise senken
Die Energiepreise sind in den vergangenen Jahren stark gestiegen und treiben weiterhin die Inflation in die Höhe. Für viele Haushalte bleiben Strom und Gas eine große Belastung. Die Bundesregierung setzt deshalb acht Schritte, um Energie günstiger zu machen: von künftigen Preiseingriffen, niedrigeren Netzkosten bis zu günstigeren Sozialtarifen für ärmere Haushalte. Im Interesse aller: Energieversorger müssen […]
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...the lowest-income percentiles of a population the hardest, as they spend more on consumption than the richer percentiles. In economic terms, it is regressive.
Just look what happened to grain exports to Africa, when Ukraine could not deliver due to the war.
Take #Austria as a postive counter example. It even strives for more social equality regarding energy prices with a comprehensive new law, the...
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...price shock, the war in #Ukraine and the destruction of the Nordstream pipeline let energy prices peak in the #EU. Another example was the major disruption of global supply lines by the #Covid-19 #pandemic.
And even a planned "#ShockTherapy" does not bode well for many economies, here's a look at the disastrous #Russian 1991 example of #BorisYeltsin:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110486678385992086
Also, (sudden) price hikes usually hit...
RE: https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110486678385992086
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"Anyone who owned these stocks was colluding."
Morally, yes, maybe. In the criminal justice systems I am (rather superficially) aware of, ownership in a legal enterprise, in particular one quoted on a public stock exchange, is never a crime.
" And a shortage of oil also sends a sense of urgency."
Yes, this will happen, however, as we all saw by the most recent external energy-...
AndyDearden@sundogplanets oh look - another negative externality that #capitalism doesn't want to pay for #polluterpaysprinciple
It's less than a joke.
The "industrialized countries" owe the "developing countries (and themselves) USD 170,000 billion (170 trillion) in #ClimateReparations. This is why the world's bigges #polluter, the #USA, has been fighting tooth and nail to negate any financial responsibility for #ClimateChange if the #PolluterPaysPrinciple were implemented: