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Or, here’s another idea: a tax on carbon.

We are subsidizing fossil fuels by deferring their actual real cost to the future. We can and should stop doing that.



Who can impose this global tax you dream of? India currently is smuggling oil out of Russia because they offered a better price.


It doesn’t need to be global? It can be within your borders applying to domestic production and imports.

You can require an implementation and oversight of a carbon tax as part of a trade deal.

We’ve literally enforced a thousand different rules on the world as a collective species. Stop pretending this one is different.


So, in any tragedy of the commons are we just going to accept that the only solutions are going to be to change the concrete circumstances that make it a one?

If not climate change, then there'll be other instances like this where what's good for the individual (country) is bad for the world.


In 2021, 136 countries agreed to implement a 15% global minimum tax rate. It's not yet implemented, but it should start in ~2025.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_minimum_corporate_tax_r...

A couple of years ago, this was touted as impossible - "who can impose this global tax you dream of?" was said back then as well. Why should it be impossible for countries to come together like this, with agreements to implement tariffs against countries outside the agreement?


we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas


> Or, here’s another idea: a tax on carbon.

So more tax on food and energy to the poor. Great idea how to start a riot.


Have you heard of subsidies before?


Let's make a carbon tax and negate its effect via subsidies. More bureaucracy, no result.




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