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Re:July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Nasa by realityking on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @09:41AM (#12343608)
This. Taxes (and some kinds of regulation like Germany's "fell a tree, plant a tree" rules) are immensely helpful to price externalities into the market.
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Re:July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Nasa by mseebach on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @10:52AM (#12344172)
Chopping down and burning a tree would incur the carbon tax, so the idea would be that this would incentivise you to plant a new tree.

Perhaps planting a tree should incur a negative carbon tax.

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