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>If you eliminate US/EU production of CO2, atmospheric CO2 levels would rise 24% slower. Thank you for confirming my point. >If you added in a carbon tax that
by parsnips 7y ago
>If you eliminate US/EU production of CO2, atmospheric CO2 levels would rise 24% slower.
Thank you for confirming my point.
>If you added in a carbon tax that it levied on imports from countries that don't implement an equivalent system you can bet that China would lower its emissions too. If you're very fancy you can also offer to install alternative energy in foreign countries at cost price.
So the pitch here is... Let's risk war with a Nuclear power with a tariff stick and for a carrot offer a way to a worse standard of living then US/EU. This sounds real viable.
- adrianN 7y agoThe alternative is risking war with a nuclear power for food and land that can be used for agriculture.
- parsnips 7y agoIf anything, increased CO2 and temperatures is going _expand_ the amount of available land for agriculture. CO2, it's the gas plants crave my friend.
- adrianN 7y agoIt might expand the available land for agricultural use, but that land is not going to be in the same spots as our agriculture is now. What do you think China will do when agriculture becomes harder in China, but there is all this Russian wilderness that used to be frozen and is becoming fertile? Or the US with Canada? Where do you think hundreds of millions of Africans will go when equatorial regions become uninhabitabe without AC?