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Countries need to charge a carbon tax - including on imports. Massive boost to local, green, manufacturing and trade. The politcal view is "can't do that, pric
by iso1631 6y ago
Countries need to charge a carbon tax - including on imports. Massive boost to local, green, manufacturing and trade.
The politcal view is "can't do that, price of cheap imported tat will increase and people would have to buy locally, which would be awful"
- gedy 6y ago> including on imports Yes this is key, as otherwise it's just outsourcing to others and hiding under carpet at the expense of local jobs.
- iso1631 6y agoWorse than that, rather than using 100KWh of natural gas power to generate, you buy from abroad, from a less efficient producer who uses 150kWh of coal fired power, and then use another 100kWh of oil power to transport it. With gas being 1 "badness" per 100KWh, oil being 2 and coal being 3, this would mean avoiding 1 unit locally, but getting importing 5 units. The beauty of a carbon tax is that it satisfies those on both the environmental side ("the left") and the localism side ("the right"). The only ones not liking it are globalists that don't care about the environment.
- 0wis 6y agoMay need more cultural changes before a law. Trials in France haven’t worked. Minimalism, KonMari methods and digital nomad trends (to name a few) are showing that you can live a very happy, fulfilled and wealthy life with a lot less material stuff. A solution could be to be mass communicate on this to help people become confident enough for a carbon tax.