Re:How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web mo...
by redisman on Friday September 18, 2020 @11:22AM
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You really only need the US to implement it as they're the consumer kings of the world. You can't just go sell a million SUV's to the Russians or Europeans or Ethiopians because you didn't want to pay the carbon tax in the US.
Re:How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web mo...
by fetbaffe on Friday September 18, 2020 @03:41AM
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Problem is free trade & WHO itself, it is easier to go back to tariffs, by making things more expensive people will consume less, you can also increase quality & add requirements that a product must reparable.
Any individual country implementing a carbon tax doesn't work because they put themselves at a big disadvantage, and goods and services go across country borders, taking with them almost-impossible to fairly calculate amounts of carbon.
The biggest things the world could do towards the "world dictator" approach would be:
* Have a consortium of countries implement a carbon tax, while taxing all inbound goods from countries that don't tax carbon.
* Adjust WTO rules to allow taxing imports based on estimated carbon content.
* Have the WTO decide which countries are "on track to meet carbon reduction targets". Allow taxes on imports from any country that isn't.
* Allow countries to "sue" another country for environmental damages. When they don't pay up, have a UN court able to threaten anything up to military action/takeover of the country's leadership to get payment.