Virtually ALL cost-accounting ignores secondary and tertiary effects of an operation, even though some of these might easily outweigh the cost elements of the operation itself.
See, for a fuller treatment of this theme, ECOCIDE, on Russia's deadly failure to include environmental and toxic impacts of its industrial and agricultural activities. In the 70s, the US EPA sought to enlarge the scope of accounting by the introduction of "Technology Assessment". Analytically, the task is non-trivial, and for that and for political reasons our society, as all other societies in the world with which I am familiar, has yet to automatically attend to the secondary and tertiary costs of an operation. As our species further evolves we may yet make this analytic, philosophical and moral leap. Lawrence -----Original Message----- From: grok [mailto:g...@resist.ca] Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 11:04 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Wind energy breakthrough -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > blows strongly in the Prairie States). This is why solar makes sense, > since even at $1 watt for the solar cell - the electricity costs 4-6 > times more than from a coal plant. But is this the actual, real cost of coal power? Seems to me they're highly subsidized in myriad ways -- and capitalist cost-accounting notoriously sloughs off environmental/social costs, whenever they can get away with it... - -- grok. - -- Build the North America-wide General Strike. TODO el poder a los consejos y las comunas. TOUT le pouvoir aux conseils et communes. ALL power to the councils and communes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkn9sk4ACgkQXo3EtEYbt3H/bQCg0mrUvN8R3PIQY2lRWdmeDkOx 8tMAoIbqJUoO74OsmeBYQ50bUEjJ4X+8 =+Lcw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
