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This sounds like a naive response to a fundamentally flawed system. The EU ETS has been a failure from the beginning. Commoditising pollution just leads to more
by vogon_laureate 9y ago
This sounds like a naive response to a fundamentally flawed system. The EU ETS has been a failure from the beginning. Commoditising pollution just leads to more abstractions and opportunities for fraud, laundering and lack of accountability. It takes the onus away from government regulation and puts it in the hands of the market whereby those most responsible for pollution already have enormous agency to influence market outcomes in their favour.
- ohthehugemanate 9y agoAre you implying that massive industrial interests DON'T have the capability to buy special political influence?
- vogon_laureate 9y agoOf course they do, but ceding full control directly to them is hardly the best counter to that.