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Those types of surveys are meaningless. Attach a number to the belief and you get vastly different results. The number doesn't even have to be big. > To combat
by bko 3y ago
Those types of surveys are meaningless. Attach a number to the belief and you get vastly different results. The number doesn't even have to be big.
> To combat climate change, 57 percent of Americans are willing to pay a $1 monthly fee; 23 percent are willing to pay a monthly fee of $40.
https://apnorc.org/projects/is-the-public-willing-to-pay-to-help-fix-climate-change/ https://apnorc.org/projects/is-the-public-willing-to-pay-to-...
- Spivak 3y agoThat's not how most collective decision making goes though. You just make the rule and lets the costs be what they'll be. If you could omnipotently know the individual costs of laws people would oppose all of them -- real purchasing power is horrible right now, taking anyone's discretionary income for anything will be wildly unpopular.
- BugsJustFindMe 3y agoLuckily even $1 per American per month totals 4 Billion dollars per year.
- bko 3y ago> The President's Budget invests a total of $44.9 billion in discretionary budget authority to tackle the climate crisis, Billion here, billion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2022/03/28/president-bidens-fy-2023-budget-reduces-energy-costs-combats-the-climate-crisis-and-advances-environmental-justice/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2022/03/28/pres...
- BugsJustFindMe 3y agoI think $44.9 billion/year is about the current cost to build enough solar and wind electricity generation to cover 100% of US peak consumption in only 10 years (construction costs for both today are about $1/watt). That's a pretty big amount all things considered.