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Re:Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment by nightski on Thursday August 15, 2019 @07:50PM (#20710840)
Because you are acting like this would punish the company. It might to an extent but in reality consumers would hurt the most. That in my opinion is why it doesn't happen.
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Re:Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment by jeromegv on Thursday August 15, 2019 @11:01PM (#20711793)
Not as much when the carbon tax is tax-neutral. In Canada we started getting back a carbon tax credit. Consumer impact is still there but a lot more mitigated.
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Re:Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment by ako on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:16AM (#20715357)
It’s meant to ‘punish’ consumers: it needs to be painful enough that consumers reduce their consumption, otherwise pollution will not be reduced.
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Re:Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment by nightski on Monday August 19, 2019 @01:41PM (#20739881)
Right but it's not going to punish consumers equally. It will hurt the poor a lot more than the rich imho. Essentially a regressive tax moving the burden for the climate change problem to the poor.
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Re:Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment by omosubi on Thursday August 15, 2019 @08:01PM (#20710905)
The tyranny of the majority :/
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