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Before the emissions control feeding frenzy begins, let's try to remember that further regulation without industry input contributes to further inflation & move
by howmayiannoyyou 5y ago
Before the emissions control feeding frenzy begins, let's try to remember that further regulation without industry input contributes to further inflation & moves more polluting production overseas where we have no control over its impact on the world.
Yes, we should aim for zero emissions. Yes, the health impacts carry their own costs not to mention the human tragedy. However, good public policy is about rewarding good behavior (eg. tax credits) and punishing bad behavior (eg. tax, enforcement, penalties). Everyone loves to talk about the latter, while the former is ignored.
We really need to be long-term smart about how we craft environmental policy in America, and particularly so given other countries unwillingness to manage pollution in an effective or transparent manner.
- anonAndOn 5y agoYou mean they'll be like oil fields out in the middle of a desert where nobody lives? If it's gonna off-gas, might as well be in the middle of nowhere.
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- blablabla123 5y ago> further regulation ... moves more polluting production overseas where we have no control over its impact on the world. Large corporations and not governments offshore production. Arguably this hasn't much to do with regulations but wholly different economies such that the comparative cost advantage is 10x or more. And of course it's possible to check under what conditions suppliers produce things.
- thinkcontext 5y ago> let's try to remember that further regulation without industry input Industry contributes all the time. Their contribution is to make sure nothing at all gets done by funding politicians, lawyers and fake science. This pattern has been repeated ad naseum with lead, asbestos, PCBs, climate, etc. In a just world this kind of bad faith action would mean at a minimum industry is ignored in the policy process while a solution is imposed on them. Better would be to wipe out the shareholders in order to compensate for the externalities they've inflicted on others.