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Start suing You mean the "got caught" tax? Still cheaper. The entire system (from monetary policy to shareholder value) is incentivized to extract all resource
by staplers 3y ago
Start suing
You mean the "got caught" tax? Still cheaper. The entire system (from monetary policy to shareholder value) is incentivized to extract all resources and grow capital until everything is dust.
Even our "natural parks" are sold to corporations for resource extraction. There is no going back. Only certain catastrophe or a radically alternative system is implemented.
- mavhc 3y agoTax everything the amount it costs to clean up the pollution it causes, then use that money to clean up the pollution. Magically cheaper ways to clean up pollution, and ways to cause less pollution will be then created
- jobigoud 3y ago> Tax everything the amount it costs to clean up the pollution it causes This would be very fair but note that it instantly kills anything that produces nuclear waste, as you must factor in the cost of maintaining that waste for 100 000 years or more.
- pyrale 3y agoIt would instantly kill anything full stop depending on what you call pollution. There is no such thing as a fully cyclic industrial production system. Nuclear is only special in that it's one of the very few industries for which we are careful to track its impact. If we started using the same standard for everything we do, everything would disappear overnight, starting with agriculture.
- mavhc 3y agoIf so then there's no solution except most people dying, which is why we should at least try something better
- pyrale 3y ago> Magically cheaper ways to clean up pollution, and ways to cause less pollution will be then created Sure. Also while we're at it, we can tax companies for not using perpetual motion in their industrial processes, and, magically, perpetual motion machines will be invented.
- mavhc 3y agoThat would require way more magic/sufficiently advanced technology than we can afford currently