Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet

Re:Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet by nickparker on Saturday November 24, 2018 @08:13AM (#18521851)

Border adjustments are a well understood policy solution to this issue. Imports from polluting countries are taxed appropriately, and exports to those countries subsidized. From the perspective of anyone inside the nation with the border adjustment, it’s as though the whole world implemented the carbon tax.

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Re:Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet by fjsolwmv on Saturday November 24, 2018 @03:49PM (#18523906)

That only works if taxing countries ahave a way to estimate should-be-taxable events in other countries.

How do you know of Chieng-Shen's widgets are from polluting factories but Hong Wan's aren't?

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Re:Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet by nickparker on Saturday November 24, 2018 @11:48PM (#18525517)

Carbon taxes generally don’t need to be huge to achieve their goals, so anyone without proof they’re clean can be taxed as though they’re filthy.

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