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I honestly think at this point a carbon tax wouldn't help a whole lot unless we did something like develop and fund carbon sequestration with that money. A redu
by mveety 10y ago
I honestly think at this point a carbon tax wouldn't help a whole lot unless we did something like develop and fund carbon sequestration with that money. A reduction in total output wouldn't help because there's already a whole lot of CO2 in the atmosphere right now causing problems that something needs to be done about. All of the reductions measures are punts to a future generation because we're still putting CO2 into the atmosphere, and even if it's at a slower rate the same outcome will happen, albeit in 100 years instead of 50. Plus I worry that the government would waste the money on bombing people and spying on us instead of fixing this crisis that is much much worse than what any terrorist could do to us.
- Retric 10y agoThere are natural carbon sinks which will reduce CO2 levels. The problem is we are digging up carbon vastly faster than they operate. So a 50% reduction would push things off by more than that. Also, their is a lot of inertia in having a carbon based economy, so a larger change at the start can be much cheaper long term. Consider an electrified road would be cheaper than gas and no need to refill the tank, but we have ~zero cars that could use it right now. However, start building them and economics will finish the job. How to pay up to that tipping point? Well a new tax of some type...