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the world should just enforce How does that work, again?

• PaulHoule 3y ago
  That's the problem. No one country can do it alone. It's a cop-out that it is simply a problem of the global north because if you add up emissions from developing countries it is a lot https://www.cgdev.org/media/developing-countries-are-responsible-63-percent-current-carbon-emissions https://www.cgdev.org/media/developing-countries-are-respons... If a zone like the US or the EU imposes a carbon tax but some other zone such as China, does not, it will perceive unfair competition. Already everybody in global trade thinks the situation is unfair (This situation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws that dominated UK politics in 1850 still dominates world politics today and is the real reason why the WTO hasn't recovered from "The Battle of Seattle") It is the mother of all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem and the answer we seem to have chosen is ecological collapse and die-off. Whoever is left behind is going to turn their backs on everything our civilization stands for (look how Rome's literature was purposefully destroyed;) it would be hopeful that people would embrace some kind of governance to deal with global problems by then but which much fewer people those problems might not seem so salient and that rejection might be more fundamental than that.