Carbon Capture and Storage is necessary to keep global warming below 2°C

Re:Carbon Capture and Storage is necessary to keep global wa... by Swenrekcah on Sunday January 26, 2020 @09:28AM (#22152201)

Regardless of the method priority rank, all carbon emissions should be taxed starting yesterday. If an imported item can not be proven to be carbon taxed already then tax it in customs.

The taxation should be revenue neutral, that is every cent gained is redistributed to the people, or some part of it to carbon capturing projects.

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Re:Carbon Capture and Storage is necessary to keep global wa... by wott on Sunday January 26, 2020 @10:35AM (#22152526)

> The taxation should be revenue neutral, that is every cent gained is redistributed to the people,

It definitely should not, for almost every such cent is unavoidably re-used in buying something else (and thus keeps on feeding the crazy economic machine), which ends up in energy consumption and carbon emission in a way or another.

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Re:Carbon Capture and Storage is necessary to keep global wa... by Swenrekcah on Sunday January 26, 2020 @11:52AM (#22153064)

Not nessicarily. If the amounts turn out to be so large as to possibly increase consumption even more, well then some percentage of people might just reduce their work by a bit and spend more time with their family or do self-sustaining things.

But a large part of why everyone should be demanding a revenue neutral carbon tax is because it neutralizes any objection that is justified by any version of a small-government theory.

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