> The most straightforwardly fair way to do it is a carbon budget. And that kind of budget is just called a "budget". The resistance of a certain type of activ

> The most straightforwardly fair way to do it is a carbon budget. And that kind of budget is just called a "budget". The resistance of a certain type of activist to using prices to allocate scarcity is going to doom us all if these activists end up setting policy. Prices force people to be honest about what's important and to make tiny trade-offs every day between disparate things. Ad-hoc bans are vulnerable to all sorts of political forces that all amount to people signaling false things about their preferences. Money doesn't have this problem. There's a reason that there's this common phrase "put your money where your mouth is".