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> a measure that would kill the fossil fuel industry Increasing the cost of flights by 8%, and by doing so, killing the source of fuel for those flights sounds
by indymike 4y ago
> a measure that would kill the fossil fuel industry
Increasing the cost of flights by 8%, and by doing so, killing the source of fuel for those flights sounds like economic Armageddon.
- aoeusnth1 4y agoI guess we have to choose between two Armageddons then, one real and one inconvenient.
- indymike 4y ago> I guess we have to choose between two Armageddons then, one real and one inconvenient. We can chose something that is less perfect, but does not result in Armageddon. Solutions that are as bad or worse than the problem are a very hard sell.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoclimate change will result in famine and war, maybe nuclear war. Madagaskar has a drought xaused famine right now. Uf that hapens in Pakistan thats a powderkeg situation. Which 'solution' is as bad?
- quickthrower2 4y agoImagine what it would do if we put heavy restrictions on borders and travel and there was a massive drop in demand from, something like a terrorist attack, or maybe a virus. It would snuff out all industry. Impossible to cope.
- npc54321 4y agoMy whole family went from just plain d poverty to extreme poverty thanks to the lockdowns....
- nslzk 4y ago
- salawat 4y agoNot everyone here is ignorant or unwilling to think of second order effects. You can't really do programming/networks/tech as a career and not get it after a certain point. These problems are hard as hell, and yeah, being paid well insulates one from a lot of problems if that's what you set out to do. Not everyone sets out to do that though.
- yonaguska 4y agoIt's hard to understand being poor unless you've been there though. You can acknowledge it, yes, but that's usually as far as most people will go.
- quickthrower2 4y agoSorry that your family had to go through that, and all the people in affected industries, but the lockdowns also saved a lot of lives. Probably millions. Thousands of 9/11s. Worldwide. A lockdown "here" prevents covid spreading both here .... and there. The main topic of this thread is saving humanity from adverse man-made climate change. We are also talking about saving millions here.
- yata69420 4y agoI was in favor of aggressive lockdowns at the time, but I live in a part of the US that proudly does not lockdown or wear masks. I think we had 2 weeks of total "lockdown" when people were legitimately scared. We haven't had significantly more deaths per capita than other stricter parts of the country. We now have examples from all around the globe. China's super strict approach seems like it sort of worked for a while, but even they had cases.
- drekk 4y ago
- wmf 4y agoWe shouldn't say that the oil industry will be killed; it would be more like a ramp down over 30-40 years.
- dheera 4y agoNo, we would /reduce/ the source of fuel for those flights to the amount actually needed while people who don't have a good reason to fly stop flying. It will also incentivize people to find better sources of fuel, and invent better aircraft.
- LorenPechtel 4y agoWhich is why we should never implement such a tax all at once. You implement such things slowly to let the market adjust.