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> I just don't see how this helps. Just curious, what would be your favorite solution(s) of the climate crisis?
by perfunctory 7y ago
> I just don't see how this helps.
Just curious, what would be your favorite solution(s) of the climate crisis?
- rocgf 7y agoIdeally, with absolutely no loss of comfort, no extra taxes, while maintaining our current wasteful lifestyles. We can barely get people to sort their trash into plastics/glass/paper before throwing it away and we say stuff like "I just don't see how this [measure that introduces taxes which would make people less likely to book flights] helps". And this is in a place like Hacker News, which is supposed to sort of towards the tail end of the human intelligence distribution. Day by day, I'm starting to think we are royally fucked.
- 0xffff2 7y agoNot GP, but any action that does not occur at a global level is nothing more than a feel-good measure. You're kidding yourself if you think that this, or even this multiplied across all of Europe would make a dent in climate change. Meanwhile, it allows people to feel like they're doing something, reducing the likelihood that we will actually see a globally coordinated effort to really change direction on the climate.
- caymanjim 7y agoExactly. It's like recycling. It lets people feel like they're doing something, raises prices, but doesn't actually achieve any of the objectives used to market it. If you want to reduce pollution, regulate it, cap it, and provide penalties for breaching limits that far outweigh the profits for cheaters. Simply taxing everything never changes behavior.