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The manual choice of what is low-hanging fruit is a path to failure. Instead, we should just tax the emission of the dangerous substance. So today, we'll do CO2
by scarejunba 7y ago
The manual choice of what is low-hanging fruit is a path to failure. Instead, we should just tax the emission of the dangerous substance. So today, we'll do CO2. After a while, we'll include CH4. Then with a total cap on carbon, we allow the market to trade the right to carbon.
This will allow money to flow to the right places.
- petermcneeley 7y agoIf your implementation means that a person in the third world cannot afford a fire to cook meals but a person in the first world can afford a huge fire pit for cooking marshmallows I would say you are well on your way to creating a dystopia. But hey perhaps they could pay for their emissions using those digital microloans!
- scarejunba 7y agoCan't do it. Flammable material is readily available so they won't play the game if it means they'll starve (which is how I'd do it). I can't impose that on these people and it is an outcome that is absurd so I'm sure we can make something work here.