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You make it sound like these unsolved, expensive, or insurmountable issues. Literally all of these have cheap, trivial fixes that would reopen markets closed b
by corebit 7y ago
You make it sound like these unsolved, expensive, or insurmountable issues.
Literally all of these have cheap, trivial fixes that would reopen markets closed by the perverse subsidization we have now.
> People do not want their electric bill to jump ten (or more) folds
Power companies already offer budget billing to deal with the seasonal variation. It's trivial to extend this to some level of weather prediction. In fact there's already source variation taken into account. Even if the increased volatility causes the order of magnitude price changes, there is already a market for electric price smoothing through batteries and energy storage. Just look what Tesla did for this exact issue in Australia.
>Food prices would go up as rural living is directly impacted by carbon taxes.
I'm not sure how you're figuring this. If anything, food prices would decrease because we'd find more efficient local distribution techniques. Since rural areas is where the foo dis grown, that's where it would be the cheapest. In fact we not only already have more local distribution channels - we have federal infrastructure around it: https://www.ams.usda.gov/local-food-directories/farmersmarkets https://www.ams.usda.gov/local-food-directories/farmersmarke.... Moreover, there's already a growing free market for this: https://fortune.com/2015/08/21/local-food-movement-business/ https://fortune.com/2015/08/21/local-food-movement-business/.
> increased costs to personal transportation means a population that relies more on mass transit systems. That mean in order to keep people from moving to cities we need a significant investment into building out the railway system
I'm not following this argument. Increased reliance on mass transit would overall make everything cheaper, AVOIDing massive investments in both railroads and increased highway capacity.
I also don't follow your last point. Tariffs don't require treaties and are probably the best place to solve this in the beginning. As more nations enact their own carbon tariffs, we could begin to have a real discussion on international agreements.