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Works pretty well, except for the one country that is currently self sanctioning under the assumption that trade wars are easy to win.

• pfisch 7y ago
  Really? Are the other countries on target? I heard the EU was not. I want it to work. I'm just not sure it is, or if humans are even capable of coordinating on the scale required to address this problem outside of some geoengineering solution.
  • arbitrary_name 7y ago
    We used to only live and cooperate with tightly knot tribal groups. Now we often call ourselves Americans, Europeans, Arabs, Jews, Sikhs etc. We are capable of cooperating on a global scale but a certain group of self interested folks need to get out of the way
    • pfisch 7y ago
      Well if they are unwilling to do that it seems like we aren't really capable of it. Just like we aren't capable of operating without corruption or war because a certain group of people won't "get out of the way"
• AnthonyMouse 7y ago
  Waiting for consensus is garbage. We don't need to wait for everybody else to do the right thing before we do it. You also don't need an international agreement to impose tariffs on any country that emits more than a given amount of CO2 per capita, and if more than a couple of countries impose those conditions (or even just one big one like the US) then it gives others domestic cover to do something meaningful because they can argue they have to do it to avoid the tariffs. Meanwhile they can "retaliate" by imposing the same conditions and soon enough everyone is hitting their targets to avoid all the tariffs, without anyone ever having to sign up for a unified agreement.