Market solutions to environmental pollution fallaciously presume that what is good and rational for a collection of individuals is necessarily good and rational for a society. As a result, important ethical and policy questions can be missed and that can lead to serious environmental harm. 

Under the market model, for example, restricting sales of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and treating them as trucks with higher gas mileage standards or increasing taxes on gasoline would never be considered.

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