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It would be, if people were actually willing to put their money where their mouth is and invest some of their own cash to take certificates off the market. App
by DocTomoe 4y ago
It would be, if people were actually willing to put their money where their mouth is and invest some of their own cash to take certificates off the market.
Apparently, people are unwilling to do so in meaningful numbers.
Ergo: They do not see this as an actual problem, which means problem is solved. We just need to accept that.
- anigbrowl 4y agoBut carbon credits were never marketed as a way for people to retire carbon debt - they were presented as a way to implement the 'polluter pays' principle using the 'proven' mechanisms of the market. I do think markets are a very useful social technology for allocating resources. But they can also be abused for distributing liability and they're slow. There's a reason most polities abandon the market model for urgent tasks like firefighting.
- DocTomoe 4y agoIn all fairness, that sounds a lot like "The citizenry is too stupid to get it, so now we force our will upon them." or, and that's even less charitable, "the section of the citizenry that wants carbon emission deceleration does want others to pay for it." At some point, I think we need to decide if we want to continue the world trying to be democratic, or if we want more-or-less benevolent, eco-dictatorships.