Does Environmentalism Come at the Expense of Economic Prosperity?

Here’s a good discussion on some points near and dear to us here are 2GreenEnergy, especially the way in which the oil companies have systematically internalized their profits while externaling many of the most obvious and burdensome costs of their operations.   IMO, the most important concept in the whole conversation is the rhetorical position that environmentalism and capitalism as are odds with one another, i.e., that environmentalism comes at the expense of jobs and economic prosperity.  This, of course, is categorically false — yet it’s a theme that we hear constantly.