Apologies Andy for the anonymouse-ness but I deleted my account pending escalation warnings of a personal nature and prefer to keep it that way until the cause has been resolved in a face-to-face gnosis with the particular gent involved. And I keeps forgetting to add my tag at the end, and can't edit anomymous postings.
Sad thing about environment economics is that it adds to the price of any product or service. Any company that isn't a "price-setter" or genuine monopoly will find it difficult to pass on those costs. Giving the two fold effect: Anybody who "goes green" and can't sell it as value-add will lose to its competitors; secondly any company that can fake green in a cost effective manner will beat out their green competitors. That's why we need third parties like central/local government to level the playing field and keep competitors honest with their green claims (both my company and my opposition). Companies would love to pass the full cost of production (including environment controls) to the people causing the damage : the consumer. But any company that penalises their consumers, rather than sell them benefits will not be in business when the crunch time hits!
And history says those with resources will have best chance of food/shelter. Those who are heroes will just feed the sharks, and thats the first rule of aggressive business. As you can appreciate over-capitalisation be it too much expansion or too many environmental initatives will sink any producer. And sunk [green] producers are no use to anyone!
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Sad thing about environment economics is that it adds to the price of any product or service. Any company that isn't a "price-setter" or genuine monopoly will find it difficult to pass on those costs. Giving the two fold effect: Anybody who "goes green" and can't sell it as value-add will lose to its competitors; secondly any company that can fake green in a cost effective manner will beat out their green competitors. That's why we need third parties like central/local government to level the playing field and keep competitors honest with their green claims (both my company and my opposition). Companies would love to pass the full cost of production (including environment controls) to the people causing the damage : the consumer. But any company that penalises their consumers, rather than sell them benefits will not be in business when the crunch time hits!
And history says those with resources will have best chance of food/shelter. Those who are heroes will just feed the sharks, and thats the first rule of aggressive business. As you can appreciate over-capitalisation be it too much expansion or too many environmental initatives will sink any producer. And sunk [green] producers are no use to anyone!
Regards,
Carl