Higher prices, called price premiums, can be justified as a way to compensate farmers for providing ecosystem services and avoiding environmental damage or external costs.

更高的价格，亦称为价格溢价，可以作为补偿农民的一种措施，补偿其为提供生态系统服务、避免环境破坏或外部成本带来的损失。

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The external costs of drilling in deep waters exceeds the net worth of the oil industry.

深水钻探的外部成本超过了石油工业的净值。

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And nuclear is hardly the only energy source that hasn't stood up in the free market once you factor in the external costs.

考虑到外部的成本因素，所以核电到目前为止是唯一还没能在自由市场上自主建设的能源。

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Since the external costs likely grow with bank size, it probably would make sense for the fee to grow with liabilities.

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Meanwhile, solar energy costs would be competitive today with fossil fuels if all of the external costs of the latter were counted, such as the effects on air and water quality, and ultimately on human health, Orts points out.

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Road-pricing has long been championed by economists, keen to impose more of the external costs of driving on road-users by charging them a fee that reflects not just the distance travelled (which is loosely what gasoline taxes do) but also the time and route of the journey.

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