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Or, here’s another idea: a tax on carbon. We are subsidizing fossil fuels by deferring their actual real cost to the future. We can and should stop doing that.

• whatever1 3y ago
  Who can impose this global tax you dream of? India currently is smuggling oil out of Russia because they offered a better price.
  • tekmate 3y ago
    we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas
  • jppittma 3y ago
    So, in any tragedy of the commons are we just going to accept that the only solutions are going to be to change the concrete circumstances that make it a one? If not climate change, then there'll be other instances like this where what's good for the individual (country) is bad for the world.
  • aaomidi 3y ago
    It doesn’t need to be global? It can be within your borders applying to domestic production and imports. You can require an implementation and oversight of a carbon tax as part of a trade deal. We’ve literally enforced a thousand different rules on the world as a collective species. Stop pretending this one is different.
  • Timon3 3y ago
    In 2021, 136 countries agreed to implement a 15% global minimum tax rate. It's not yet implemented, but it should start in ~2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_minimum_corporate_tax_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_minimum_corporate_tax_r... A couple of years ago, this was touted as impossible - "who can impose this global tax you dream of?" was said back then as well. Why should it be impossible for countries to come together like this, with agreements to implement tariffs against countries outside the agreement?
• TheLoafOfBread 3y ago
  > Or, here’s another idea: a tax on carbon. So more tax on food and energy to the poor. Great idea how to start a riot.
  • aaomidi 3y ago
    Have you heard of subsidies before?
    • TheLoafOfBread 3y ago
      Let's make a carbon tax and negate its effect via subsidies. More bureaucracy, no result.