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I don't get your better example. People only rarely invoke economic morality tale arguments to reach 'pollution is bad'. I've seen public health arguments (pollution kills and causes disease in humans and poisons our food sources). I've seen direct morality arguments (the above plus killing and causing disease in animals and plants). I've seen economic impact arguments (Public health argument put in monetary terms).
I haven't seen an argument that skipped the public health argument, hit the economic impact, then looped from there into morality.
Those are moral arguments.
Exactly. They're not economic arguments at all. It doesn't even touch on economics.