In my intro class, I routinely remind students that every economic activity has its own set of environmental impacts, and that there are no technical answers to those challenges--as in technical answers for zero impacts. Which is why then we resolve those trade-offs in the political domain. I am not sure whether all the students understand this, but I know that some really do.
The video here is an example of one such impact:
Now, compare this with the other kind of impact on birds--the BP gusher in the Gulf Of Mexico
Which trade-off do you prefer? Quite a Morton's Fork, right?
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