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Originally Posted by lio45
Easy in a dictatorship, not in a democracy 
In the real world, it would be more like
Step 1) Make plans to introduce a non-irrelevant carbon tax
Step 2) Introduce it
Step 3) Watch industry and the free market naturally take the path of cost efficiency
Step 4) Save the planet
(step 1.5 - get voted out) |
I don't disagree, but if we can't even bring ourselves to do the cheapest form of mitigation, I don't see any point doing the more expensive, more authoritarian climate change policies. We'll just make ourselves poorer for little benefit to the environment.
This shouldn't be difficult, we already have more intrusive, less efficient, objectively worse taxes than a carbon price. It's basically just a hybrid of a fuel tax and sales tax. But it's been politicized, and the fault of that is almost entirely on one side of the political spectrum. The side that should support it, if they actually believed in the ideology they pretend to support.