If people took external costs like pollution into consideration, they would on net:

A. consume a socially non-optimal amount of the goods causing the externalities.
B. not change their behavior to consume more or less of the goods causing externalities.
C. consume more of the goods causing these externalities.
D. consume less of the goods causing these externalities.


D. consume less of the goods causing these externalities.

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