Thesis: If polluters harm the environment, pollution constitutes a moral danger to the ecosystem and must be resolved. While polluters can pay economic compensation for their environmental disruptions, this will not necessarily solve environmental problems. In this essay, three authors offer different perspectives on the question of making polluters pay. Their explicit opinions on this subject are not visibly mentioned in their works, but simply different positions for and against this idea. As the authors give different reasons why polluters should or should not pay, they all mention that a moral question is attached to this discussion. I intend to analyze the authors' readings and interpret their writings for the purposes of this essay. From a moral point of view, if polluters harm the environment, pollution poses a real danger to the environment and must be resolved. Even if polluters can pay compensation for their environmental disruptions, this does not necessarily solve the environmental problems affecting our ecosystem. Although three authors offer different perspectives on the issue of making polluters pay, their explicit views are not visibly mentioned in their works, mostly simply different positions for and against the idea. I intend to analyze the authors' readings and interpret their arguments in this area of ​​discussion. The first author's reading that I will analyze is Mark Sagoff's publication, The Economy of the Land. Although Sagoff's writings are helpful to our understanding, they ultimately do not speak explicitly to the main question at hand, namely whether or not polluters should pay. In chapter 3 he talks about the allocation and distribution of resources and how people have incompatible preferences...... middle of paper ...... ems of the environment. The analysis and interpretation of these readings are interpreted to justify the thesis of this argument.Bibliography PageDryzek, John S. 2005. The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses. 2nd.Oxford: Oxford University Press.- This source has been useful in defining green taxes and why they might contribute to pollution and vice versa.Goodin, Robert. 1994. “Selling Environmental Indulgences.” Kyklos 47(4): 573-596.- This source helped provide an analogy to the idea of ​​selling sin and selling the environment.Sagoff, Mark. 2008. “The allocation and distribution of resources. » In The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law and Environment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 50-73.- This source was useful in defining the standards of who gets what resources and how they will be distributed..