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>If worldwide carbon caps and tariffs become a thing, the oil and gas in the ground suddenly becomes nearly worthless if you can't use it. 2nd and 3rd world co
by itsoktocry 4y ago
>If worldwide carbon caps and tariffs become a thing, the oil and gas in the ground suddenly becomes nearly worthless if you can't use it.
2nd and 3rd world countries are going to bathe in cheap oil when/if the 1st world bans it.
How do you plan on enforcing the bans globally?
- londons_explore 4y agoWe kinda enforce "don't trade slaves" globally... And "No child labour"... And "don't steal other countries ships when they sail near your country". "Don't emit more than your fair share of carbon" is just another rule like the others. If most countries agree, but there are a few dissenters, we can deal with it like other international disagreements - warnings, then sanctions, then war. Currently, we're far from that, because we don't have a majority of countries agreeing on carbon caps.
- panick21_ 4y agoSo the British Navy is gone blockade Africa so they cant import oil from the middle east? Great plan.
- londons_explore 4y agoNah - it'll go down like Venezuela [1]. The government of a country flagrantly ignores the internationally agreed carbon caps, and so some country or group of countries get together and sponsor a coup. It happened to Venezuela because they refused to align with US interests, and with other economic and political issues, they were an easy target. The wikipedia page [1] has a nice summary of the list of countries on each side of the dispute, and you can see a nice 'pro USA' and 'anti USA' divide. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela#Since_2018 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela#Since_2018
- panick21_ 4y agoSponsoring foreign queue is not actually that easy.