[zenonu]

Could there a be a future where consumption is met with equal parts restoration and environmental investment by the companies themselves? I'd like a progressive system where whole foods nutrition, clean water, shelter, and medical care is subsidized below cost, but then everything else requires us to pony up when purchasing.

[Sabinus]

That's the only system that will work. Environmental impacts need to be in the product price and the company on the hook for disposal.

But because that would increase costs the lobbyists forbid it. Plus you would probably need a tarrif system on top to prevent cheap dirty foreign goods from replacing all your domestic manufacture.