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2022 or an adjacent year is one we'll refer back to a lot. It is basically our last chance at reducing the pace of climate change. Either we make policy decisio
by lucb1e 5y ago
2022 or an adjacent year is one we'll refer back to a lot. It is basically our last chance at reducing the pace of climate change. Either we make policy decisions this year or we continue to argue if we should do option A or B and it's just going to be too little too late. I fear/"predict" 2022 is going to be the year of more debate and few decisions or actions (see also today's thread about nuclear and gas being "green" or not -- that's not the point, the point is stopping emissions).
- cies 5y agoif we rearrange all taxes to be fees on pollution we have the market solve this problem in no-time. i think a fair and square CO2-eq tax is the only solution that will not require govt to come up with loads of quota/restrictions (which will take decades to setup and will always be unfair to some). the current situation is a joke: lots of tax at the petrol pump, but not for airplanes. restrictions on plastic bags and straws but subsidies for lifestock and their feed industry. the current situation is setup for total destruction and the only changes we managed to make were tokens: nothing has made a real dent. because god forbid it changes the status quo. the status quo has all the lobby power, and democracy is a racket.