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However, it would force people to do something. Restricting supply increases price, and thus alternatives/efficiencies become more viable. An effective climate
by somewhereoutth 4y ago
However, it would force people to do something. Restricting supply increases price, and thus alternatives/efficiencies become more viable.
An effective climate preservation campaign would focus on production facilities - coal mines, oil rigs etc. Not necessarily directly - for example the best way to shut down North Sea oil production would be to make it impossible to fly helicopters out there - protest airfields, helicopter maintenance depos, protest to the pilots, disrupt the logistics. Of course this then becomes a national security threat, and would be dealt with accordingly.
- bluGill 4y agoIt forces them to vote you out of office and in come the subsidies for coal.
- bobthepanda 4y agoYeah, for an example of how this works horribly in practice, look at how the French yellow vests rolled back their climate taxes
- WalterBright 4y agoAt better way is tax it. Governments are experts at taxing.
- calsy 4y agoMore tax = increased cost to purchase resource = buyers finding cheaper alternative.
- schneems 4y agoAnd corporations are experts at regulatory capture. I would be amazed/surprised if one is introduced and effective. But you don’t get what you don’t fight for. Just because the odds are stacked against today doesn’t mean we can’t do something to shift that stack a bit for a better tomorrow.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoUntil the supreme dictator decrees this we need to figure out something that works in a market economy as we don’t have a command economy.