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A punch in the face compared to the bloody good and relentless kicking climate change will deliver economically, dragging back progress for decades or centuries
by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
A punch in the face compared to the bloody good and relentless kicking climate change will deliver economically, dragging back progress for decades or centuries. I know which I think is likely to be cheaper, and better for the economy.
At least a carbon tax can be used to mitigate the effects on the most vulnerable and poorest, and used to create solutions and alternatives to emissions. Extreme events, or food shortages wont give that luxury.
- o-__-o 7y agoAsk 10 of your friends if they wouldn’t mind losing their job, while you kept yours, while simultaneously fixing the climate problem for the foreseeable future. Your friends won’t know when they will get a job in the foreseeable future. Now do you understand why no one wants to get punched in the face?
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoThat's the untreated climate change disaster scenario you describe. A carbon tax might at worst case take some jobs, but aside from in oil industries needn't take any. Yet will generate nearly as many jobs elsewhere as the proceeds are spent on projects to avoid climate impacts. So no, I don't understand why someone would reject the far easier route.