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As we are learning it incredibly hard to get people to change their habits and behaviors especially when it means their utility will take a hit. Getting people
by monkeydust 4y ago
As we are learning it incredibly hard to get people to change their habits and behaviors especially when it means their utility will take a hit. Getting people to drink less coffee is just not going to happen. The more of these types of articles I read the more I am starting to realize the importance of carbon removal to solving our collective problem.
- darthrupert 4y agoAdding a specific tax for coffee and rising it by 1% every quarter would probably work in removing some consumption. And it would generate resources for the government.
- snvzz 4y agoThat'd be political suicide.
- umeshunni 4y agoHow about a tax on breathing? The average human produces around 1kg of CO2 per day - from the article, that's equivalent to 4-6 cups of coffee. I assume larger people and more active people contribute significantly higher. A tax on personal CO2 emissions beyond the politburo approved 1kg per person per day will do wonders.
- mrpopo 4y agoAre you trying to equate coffee drinking and breathing? I am sure you understand those 2 things are very different.
- darthrupert 4y agoIf you need coffee to literally stay alive, you might be consuming it a tad too much ;)
- 908B64B197 4y agoWhat exactly would yet another green tax achieve? Fund underperforming government employee's pensions?
- everybodyknows 4y agoAnd how many coffee growers would it shift out of their current state of wretched poverty, downward into something worse?
- s1artibartfast 4y agoAnd then we could use that one percent tax to subsidize low-income coffee purchasers to complete the loop