Save the Planet with Capitalism

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David A Shaywitz, Save the Planet with Capitalism; Thanks to economic incentives and tech innovation, societies can ‘dematerialize’—make better stuff while consuming less material. Wall Street Journal, Oct 9, 2019
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mor ... italism-11570575672
(book review on Andrew McAfee, More from Less; The surprising story of how we learned to prosper using fewer resources—and what happens next. Scribner, 2019)

Note:
(a) " 'More From Less,' Mr McAfee, borrowing from Lincoln's praise of the patent system"
(i) history of United States patent law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_patent_law
(section 2 History of United States patent law, section 2.2 United States federal patent laws)
(ii) I fail to find the source of Lincoln's quotation.
(b) You may want to stop at this paragraph (nothing important beyond it in this review): "Even so, Mr McAfee acknowledges, capitalism struggles with pollution and other externalities."

externality (n):
"2 : something that is external
3 : a secondary or unintended consequence"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/externality