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I'm thinking Carbon footprint is shorthand for other wasteful consumption behaviors. Likewise, things like trading carbon-credits is also a boondoggle. Keep doi
by Damogran6 5y ago
I'm thinking Carbon footprint is shorthand for other wasteful consumption behaviors. Likewise, things like trading carbon-credits is also a boondoggle. Keep doing what you're doing, so long as someone else uses less carbon and can trade.
- brimble 5y agoImplemented correctly, a carbon credit market ought to be putting economic pressure on everyone to use power more efficiently, or to switch to renewables. It's supposed to be the market-based conservative approach to regulating externalities in a commons—allow companies to do what they like, but make them pay for it, while encouraging others who can cut back or switch to do so in order to sell credits on the market, or at least to stop paying for their own. Doesn't mean a particular implementation of it will be any good, but the idea is sound.
- kleer001 5y agoCap and trade for sulphur dioxide and IMHO it worked pretty well (where's the acid rain anymore?) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnrFuat458g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnrFuat458g https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/us-sulphur-dioxide-cap-and-trade-programme-and-lessons-climate-policy https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/us-sulphur-dioxide-...
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