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>Eating less meat or a carbon tax (i.e taxing the working poor) is not a solution. The poor emit disproportionately little CO2. A carbon tax mostly taxes indu
by eli_gottlieb 10y ago
>Eating less meat or a carbon tax (i.e taxing the working poor) is not a solution.
The poor emit disproportionately little CO2. A carbon tax mostly taxes industry.
- eanzenberg 10y agoWhat about China?
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoThey're not poor. Across large parts of their land area, they're an industrialized country now. They have a middle class as large as the entire United States population. That said: most Chinese don't own cars, or eat meat with every meal, or live in 2000 ft^2 fully heated McMansions in cold terrain. In short, most of them live more ecologically efficient lifestyles by default. Oh, and they instituted population control decades ago. Nowadays, a poor country is probably somewhere in Africa or Southeast Asia. Not much of the world is "starving children everywhere" poor anymore.
- mzw_mzw 10y ago> A carbon tax mostly taxes industry. And the poor never purchase anything that was made by using industry, so they certainly wouldn't have the costs passed on to them or anything.
- pas 10y agoThus the poor will change what they buy. Substitution works.