Pay for ground beef, don’t expect steak. What’s the human cost of not getting the fuel?
Same as any other energy cost. Modern societies rely on some type of energy to exist. Maybe the poor people will suffer because they can’t afford to fill up their vehicles with the cheaper dirty fuel and miss out on work opportunities. Maybe everybody suffers because the cheaper dirty fuel catalyzes harmful pollutants into the air which everybody breathes.
I guess it’s easy to say don’t buy cheap fuel because it’s bad for you, but if the alternative means not having a job or something to people with little to lose, that’s a call that’s harder to sell.
Good thing for sweatshops eh. Otherwise those 11yo girls in Bangladesh would have no other choice but to sell their bodies. I reject your preposition that there aren’t alternatives that don’t involve mortgaging the bodies of the most vulnerable people on earth. We have more than enough global productivity to meet the needs of everyone safely.