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No, we should just tax the shit out of carbon emissions and then redistribute all proceeds evenly per-capita. Much better than spending limited attention and po
by ericd 3y ago
No, we should just tax the shit out of carbon emissions and then redistribute all proceeds evenly per-capita. Much better than spending limited attention and political energy/capital on piecemeal bans. We need to halt 100% of new carbon entering the carbon cycle, not just the stuff that seems egregious enough to get people riled up about, and we need to align the economic incentives to have a hope of getting there in the timeframe that we need to.
This is a plan that’s supported by a very large number of top economists, I’ve seen it called something like a “Carbon Dividend with Border Carbon Adjustment”: https://clcouncil.org/our-plan/ https://clcouncil.org/our-plan/