The polluter should pay.

污染者应该承担污染的代价。

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The right response to an externality of this kind is to tax it-to make the polluter pay.

处理这类预期之外后果的正确方法应是，向债务人收税，即让污染者承担损失。

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The more pollution companies have produced, the greater their free allocation will be - the polluter gets paid.

企业造成的污染越多，它的免费配额就越多——污染者反而赚了。

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McKibben wants the United States, the world's greatest polluter behind China,to do more.

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China is the world's largest polluter, India is the fourth largest.

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This really is pollution and yes, we do have this general assumption that the polluter should pay for having polluted.

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In general we say that the polluter should pay, the polluter should pay the costs of cleaning up the pollution they cause.

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Fortunately, he notes, economists have already figured out how to deal with such externalities: tax them so that the polluter internalises the cost of his actions.

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