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Carbon tax on a state level to try to fight a global problem makes 0 sense actually. You just shift the emissions from your location to the location that you b
by bboygravity 1y ago
Carbon tax on a state level to try to fight a global problem makes 0 sense actually.
You just shift the emissions from your location to the location that you buy products from.
Basically what happened in Germany: more expensive "clean" energy means their own production went down and the world bought more from China instead. The net result is probably higher global emissions overall.
- __MatrixMan__ 1y agoThis is why an economics based strictly on scarcity cannot get us where we need to go. Markets, not knowing what it's like to be thirsty, will interpret a willingness to poison the well as entrepreneurial spirit to be encouraged. We need a system where being known as somebody who causes more problems than they solve puts you (and the people you've done business with) at an economic disadvantage.