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The economy does not occur naturally. We can turn the knobs on this equation by just having some taxes. For example, carbon taxes. That should change your calcu
by jeffbee 2mo ago
The economy does not occur naturally. We can turn the knobs on this equation by just having some taxes. For example, carbon taxes. That should change your calculus pretty significantly.
- unnamed76ri 2mo agoHow very tyrannical.
- thelastgallon 2mo agoYes, lets continue on with the $7 trillion subsidies/year (worldwide), 10M deaths from air pollution, almost all diseases/cancers linked to pollution. Its sacrilege to talk about fossil fuel subsidies.
- unnamed76ri 2mo ago“Almost all diseases/cancers linked to pollution” is such a bizarre claim.
- anonymars 2mo agoI don't think it's an unreasonable claim for fossil fuels to account for the vast majority of air pollution deaths But apparently it is: I certainly didn't peg desert dust to be top spot. Anakin was right https://ourworldindata.org/data-review-air-pollution-deaths https://ourworldindata.org/data-review-air-pollution-deaths
- unnamed76ri 2mo agoThe comment I was replying to saying that almost all diseases and cancers are caused by it isn’t the same thing though. Disease and cancer has been around for a long long time before the use of fossil fuels.
- anonymars 2mo agoI think "almost all diseases/cancers [that are] linked to pollution" is a much more likely read than "almost all diseases/cancers [are] linked to pollution" Admittedly I did smush the two together so I'd have to rethink whether "all deaths [that are] linked to pollution" is as reasonable as "all deaths [that are] linked to air pollution" -- I suspect it probably still would be because of the sheer scale of fossil fuels, but regardless, desert sand still beats fossil fuels anyway
- jeffbee 2mo agoMy interpretation of the statement was that it means all kinds of these diseases are linked to air pollution, not all cases.