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> E.g. a flat dividend isn't progressive enough for portions of the left Huh, that's news to me. Can you point to any prominent left politicians/pundits opinin
by lukifer 6y ago
> E.g. a flat dividend isn't progressive enough for portions of the left
Huh, that's news to me. Can you point to any prominent left politicians/pundits opining that? Is it just that they prefer Green New Deal? Do they object to the "strange bedfellows" of Frank Luntz & co. (if any Republicans like it, it must be a corporate/neo-fascist plot)?
> Carbon Engineering is my moonshot hope.
Yeah, I think we'll need something like this anyway. But with our current tech, it's still orders of magnitude more efficient to not pull the carbon out of the ground in the first place. (One of my crazier/handwavium ideas: massive fail-safe thorium reactor, hundreds of miles away from any human habitation to avoid NIMBY problems, whose only job is to pull carbon out of the air.)
- ip26 6y agoI can't point to any pundits, it's more like carbon tax & dividend bills meet a lot of argument from leftist groups in the press & popular discussion- we should spend the revenue on climate mitigation. No, it should be directly invested in renewables. No, it should be given only to poor people because they suffer more from climate change. Actually, we've been looking for a source of funds for <unrelated progressive program>...
- lukifer 6y agoAh, interesting. My assumption is that "just give it back to people" would entirely sidestep the question of how to spend the funds, but I suppose it suffers from the https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/ problem ;)