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It’s largely driven by people that don’t want to work within the market, they want to break the market, by starving supply / making it illegal. This tends to j
by parasubvert 7y ago
It’s largely driven by people that don’t want to work within the market, they want to break the market, by starving supply / making it illegal.
This tends to just lead to higher prices, black markets, riots, and right wing populist governments, but what do I know.
- Udik 7y agoThe end result of any successful action to curb fossil fuel consumption will be (at least at the beginning) an increase in the price of products depending on them. So why don't people ask directly for more taxes on those products, to drive the demand towards better alternatives? It seems to me that the people don't want to take their share of responsibility and accept that the they'll have to bear the costs of the solution; and instead crave for some sort of empty vengeance on the companies whose products they keep buying.
- parasubvert 7y agoYep. In fairness the carbon tax approach might not work so well in practice as people can just vote in populists to repeal it. A regulatory framework of rising emissions standards ala California has the nanny state downside but is harder to undo (though Trump is giving it a college try). No where in the above does “let’s just put everyone we don’t like in jail” actually work unless you’re fond of terrorism and civil war..