The EU Just Kicked Off Its Biggest Climate Experiment Yet [Carbon tariff] - eviltoast
  • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
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    1 year ago

    The idea is to raise them until emission is simply unaffordable. The economic literature is pretty clear that this is going to be effective, with the main problem being the political one of actually doing that.

    • RoboGroMo@slrpnk.net
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      1 year ago

      unaffordable to poor people, annoying to the middle classes, utterly inconsequential to the rich. economically slavery was pretty good too, there’s a lot more to making a good society than economics.

      trying to price people out of living only affects those that already can’t afford it, we need to be creating actual solutions at price points where they can gain widespread adoption.