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officious
(en)
(adjective) kind obliging / (adjective) dutiful / (adjective) volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed; meddlesome / (adjective) informal unofficial
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transferring 40 percent of its economic interest [...] officious behavior that many protested
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transferring 40 percent of its economic interest [...] officious behavior that many protested
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internecine
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(adjective) marked by slaughter; deadly / (adjective) mutually destructive / (adjective) of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group
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Lost in this internecine dispute
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Lost in this internecine dispute
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metabolic rift
(en)
Marx's notion of the "irreparable rift in the interdependent process of social metabolism," i.e., his conception of ecological crisis tendencies under capitalism
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Karl Marx, in an expression later popularized by sociologist John Bellamy Foster, called this disjuncture in the ecosystem capitalism's "metabolic rift."
on human feces being stuck in cities whereas previously they were used to fertilise the soil in the countryside (in Victorian England)
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6 years, 6 months ago
Karl Marx, in an expression later popularized by sociologist John Bellamy Foster, called this disjuncture in the ecosystem capitalism's "metabolic rift."
on human feces being stuck in cities whereas previously they were used to fertilise the soil in the countryside (in Victorian England)
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6 years, 6 months ago
Pigouvian tax
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a tax levied on any market activity that generates negative externalities
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The neoclassical logic behind carbon pricing seeks to make companies factor the cost of pollution into their budgets. It's what's known as a Pigouvian Tax, and whether it actually succeeds in curbing emissions is secondary to whether it breeds efficiency.
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6 years, 6 months ago
The neoclassical logic behind carbon pricing seeks to make companies factor the cost of pollution into their budgets. It's what's known as a Pigouvian Tax, and whether it actually succeeds in curbing emissions is secondary to whether it breeds efficiency.
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6 years, 6 months ago