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That we should be treating climate crisis with the urgency and severity that it warrants and taking immediate action. Create a flat carbon tax to make all prod
by Wyoming23 4y ago
That we should be treating climate crisis with the urgency and severity that it warrants and taking immediate action.
Create a flat carbon tax to make all products and transportation reflect their true cost rather than letting people profit by poisoning the commons. Remove the artificial barriers to nuclear that make it cost prohibitive to start a new plant. Allocate more resources to re-training fossil fuel industry laborers into new careers. Allocate more resources into finding technology to make lower carbon cement, steel and fertilizer.
We don't need to radically alter the existing economy or society. We need to make some minor tweaks so align economic incentives, stop letting people freeload off of polluting activities and allocate tax dollars to programs that are more beneficial.
- prottog 4y agoI agree with many of your points, and absolutely with the point that we should align economic incentives. I further suggest that instead of allocating tax dollars to such research programs, we just cut those taxes. If economic incentives are properly aligned, then there will be plenty of profit motive for private efforts to research lower carbon cement and whatnot. Unless you think that we can have a second Manhattan Project and dedicate half a percent of GDP to that end and get something usable on the other side ;-)