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You still have the problem that this is a textbook Public Good¹, and a textbook Collective Action Problem². As in, if someone pays $1B to decarbonize, the enti
by BurningFrog 5y ago
You still have the problem that this is a textbook Public Good¹, and a textbook Collective Action Problem².
As in, if someone pays $1B to decarbonize, the entire world benefits from it. So everyone is incentivised to make someone else pay for it.
Empirically, things like these tend to be very underfunded.
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good_(economics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good_(economics)
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem