Re:Drones piloted by climate-change activists target Heathrow
by pbhjpbhj on Saturday June 15, 2019 @06:04AM
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The flipside to that is why should wealth be the determining factor?
Suppose I'm poor but need to travel to another city to get medical treatment to save my life -- but a global carbon-tax prevents me. In contrast someone who happens to have been born to a rich family in a rich country goes around the World because they're bored.
Sure, that's a purposefully extreme example, but it's necessarily so.
Is that situation morally superior to you? Is it fair, desirable?
If we were organising things on a global scale we might give every person carbon credits. But that would be a massive redistribution of wealth.
What strikes me is we're going to need to normalise around a lower consumption lifestyle or vastly reduce the population.
Suppose I'm poor but need to travel to another city to get medical treatment to save my life -- but a global carbon-tax prevents me. In contrast someone who happens to have been born to a rich family in a rich country goes around the World because they're bored.
Sure, that's a purposefully extreme example, but it's necessarily so.
Is that situation morally superior to you? Is it fair, desirable?
If we were organising things on a global scale we might give every person carbon credits. But that would be a massive redistribution of wealth.
What strikes me is we're going to need to normalise around a lower consumption lifestyle or vastly reduce the population.