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Pigovian taxes on a massive scale.

• ars 9y ago
  Who would you tax for pollution caused by sewage leaking after a flood? You need your population to have more money, not less, so that they can afford to pay for improvements in their living environment. It's not an accident that the higher the standard of living, the lower pollution is.
  • flukus 9y ago
    > It's not an accident that the higher the standard of living, the lower pollution is. Citation? The richest countries in the world pollute (CO2e) far more per-capita than than anyone else. Even that's with much of their pollution outsourced to developing nations.
    • ars 9y ago
      Co2 is not pollution. It has issues obviously, but it's not pollution. People are so focused on Co2 these days, they've completely forgotten about actual pollution. Forgetting is understandable in developed countries because we've all but eliminated it, so what's there to think about? But go visit some non-developed countries, or maybe read the news, and you'll suddenly realize what a huge problem actual pollution is.
      • flukus 9y ago
        > the introduction of harmful substances or products into the environment - http://www.dictionary.com/browse/pollution http://www.dictionary.com/browse/pollution So Co2e is pollution, it's a harmful substance in currently produced quantities.
        • ars 8y ago
          By that definition too much water would also be pollution. You can not define pollution by quantity, that completely erases the meaning of the word.