John Stuart Mill on carbon taxes
Jun 4, 2012
Bishop Hill in Climate: other, Quotes

But with regard to the merely contingent, or, as it may be called, constructive injury which a person causes to society, by conduct which neither violates any specific duty to the public, nor occasions perceptible hurt to any assignable individual except himself; the inconvenience is one which society can afford to bear, for the sake of the greater good of human freedom.

John Stuart Mill

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