Landfill is underrated and recycling overrated

Re:Landfill is underrated and recycling overrated by reitzensteinm on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:18AM (#20439199)

There's a fairly large contingent in tech that leans libertarian while also recognizing the impending climate disaster. A climate tax is simply accounting for the externalities of your actions.

I wouldn't at all assume that somebody on this site advocating for a carbon tax would take care to not make it regressive, and I think parent's lumping it in with bird strikes (a total red herring considering nobody is talking about banning cats or glass windows) and lithium ion mining (a failure to account for opportunity cost) is pretty conclusive.

That said, I'd be happy to learn I'm mistaken.

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Re:Landfill is underrated and recycling overrated by bildung on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:46AM (#20439301)

Yes I am not from the US and thus I may be biased by the local political spectrum. Libertarianism is something uniquely US-American, I think. We do have bird strike protesters, though, and they pretty much all are from the right.

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