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This is kind of the point: we can’t force everything to change overnight but if polluting becomes more expensive people make different decisions over time. The
by acdha 3y ago
This is kind of the point: we can’t force everything to change overnight but if polluting becomes more expensive people make different decisions over time. The example I usually use are heat pumps: some people balk at the up-front cost but if burning methane required you to buy offsets that’d change the calculation over a decade.
The problem is that this would have worked better 30-40 years ago when the fossil fuel industry successfully co-opted “conservative” politicians and now we have far less window for gradual change.
- BLKNSLVR 3y agoThe positives (profit) are privatised, whilst the negatives (pollution) are socialised (and sometimes/often socialised to a country out of sight and out of mind of the country in which the profits are privatised). Something... Anything that counteracts this unfortunately universal situation has needed enacting for, as you say, 30-40 years at least. And yet I can't see there being any movement towards this for the foreseeable future.