The primary reason is that every organisation focuses on their own personal gains (mostly: power and influence). Carbon taxes are stupid because it's just anot

The primary reason is that every organisation focuses on their own personal gains (mostly: power and influence). Carbon taxes are stupid because it's just another metric that can and will simply be gamed by the industry without any net positive effect. It would be sufficient to just price goods and services according to their environmental impact. Example: most Spanish vegetables and citrus fruit should be priced at least 3-4x higher. Why? Because environmental costs aren't priced into the products and current irrigation practices are unsustainable [0]: > In any case, it is apparent that if the full cost recovery principle is applied to intensively used aquifers, many existing uses would not be economically viable. This applies to most industries today. Crabs caught in the North Sea are shipped from Germany all the way to Morocco for shelling and then shipped back to Germany for sale. Same with fruit produced in Argentina that is shipped to Thailand for packaging and then back to continental US for sale. This wouldn't be economically viable if it wasn't for huge discrepancies in cost of labour combined with heavily subsidised fuel costs. Take away subsidies, stop nationalising environmental costs (that's what a carbon tax is) and make manufacturers take responsibility for the entire product lifecycle. The latter is especially important: you cannot just start pumping out millions of car batteries per year without a solid plan for reuse and recycling. Same goes for wind turbine blades, IoT devices, etc. Want to sell millions of phones in my country? No problem, as long as you also provide a way to reuse and recycle them and make up for the environmental damage caused in the production process. This alone could be sufficient to steer things into a more sustainable direction and away from self-destructive behaviour. Taxation is not the way. [0] https://easac.eu/fileadmin/PDF_s/reports_statements/Spain_Groundwater_country_report.pdf https://easac.eu/fileadmin/PDF_s/reports_statements/Spain_Gr...