dohboi wrote:
No, fewer and fewer people will make more and more trips, and a very few will fly constantly in their own private jets and their pets and servants will also be transported separately in their own private jets.
Plantagenet wrote: One approach we came up with is that each individual would be allocated a carbon budget, i.e. an amount of carbon they could release without doing excessive harm to the climate. People who fly in private jets explode their carbon budget because private jets release much more carbon per trip then commercial jets.
Plantagenet wrote:
Putting a tax on carbon would inevitably start to force a reduction in carbon release throughout the economy.
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Plantagenet wrote:The simplest way to reduce carbon emissions is to institute a carbon tax.
The old saying, "if you want more of something, subsidize it. If you want less, tax it" also applies to fossil fuel use.
A tax on carbon will immediately result in higher prices at the pump and inexorably lead to less fossil fuel use and lower carbon emissions.
At a later time, this tax could be applied not on directly on fuel, but on products built using carbon. For instance, manufacturing new cars requires the release of immense amounts of carbon. A carbon tax could be added to the price of a new car to reflect the large carbon releases that occurred. Other products might also eventually be taxed in this way as well.
Putting a tax on carbon would inevitably start to force a reduction in carbon release throughout the economy.
Ibon wrote:Plantagenet wrote:
Putting a tax on carbon would inevitably start to force a reduction in carbon release throughout the economy.
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Again, I understand the logic. How do we overcome the hurdles?
Its certainly not going to happen under Trump
Plantagenet wrote:I really don't see any other way to reduce global CO2 emission other than a UN treaty that requires reductions in CO2 emissions. Its certainly not going to happen under Trump ..... we can only hope the next President has the sense to renounce the Paris Accords and move towards a new binding climate treaty that will require CO2 emissions. And if the US president won't do it, then we have to hope some other country will take the lead on this. Once the US and other countries are legally committed to reductions in their CO2 emissions, then the doors will open to a carbon tax and other options to make this happen.
Its very frustrating because we could've got a binding CO2 reduction treaty done back in 2009. But the failure to get it done then does't change the need to get it done.
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Ibon wrote:.... we are all culpable and you cannot simply pin all the blame on this or that leader.
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