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> Sure, if some kind of governmental oversight rationing your carbon output is introduced, where you must ask yourself these questions or else, then yes. But th
by barry-cotter 4y ago
> Sure, if some kind of governmental oversight rationing your carbon output is introduced, where you must ask yourself these questions or else, then yes. But that would be such a bleak future...
Alternatively the government could just tax carbon emissions and let people make their own decisions about how to spend their money.
- azangru 4y ago> Alternatively the government could just tax carbon emissions and let people make their own decisions about how to spend their money. Then, I am sure, those taxes would just be part of the price tag. Just as tobacco duties are. In which case one wouldn't need to exercise their carbon literacy before buying a product, just as no-one needs to give a thought about tobacco duties before deciding whether to buy a pack of cigarettes.
- barry-cotter 4y agoYes. That would be better in every way than people developing carbon literacy.