A Downward-Sloping Marginal Benefit Curve for Pollution Abatement Means That

question 101

Multiple Choice

A downward-sloping marginal benefit curve for pollution abatement means that

• A)the costs of pollution decrease as further amounts are abated.
• B)the marginal cost of pollution reduction will always exceed the marginal benefit.
• C)it is impossible to know the benefits from additional increments of pollution abatement.
• D)society views additional increments of pollution abatement as unnecessary.
• E)there are decreasing incremental benefits to be realized from additional increments of pollution abatement.

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