The politcal view is "can't do that, price of cheap imported tat will increase and people would have to buy locally, which would be awful"
Yes this is key, as otherwise it's just outsourcing to others and hiding under carpet at the expense of local jobs.
With gas being 1 "badness" per 100KWh, oil being 2 and coal being 3, this would mean avoiding 1 unit locally, but getting importing 5 units.
The beauty of a carbon tax is that it satisfies those on both the environmental side ("the left") and the localism side ("the right"). The only ones not liking it are globalists that don't care about the environment.
Or maybe the transportation and power generation sectors pollute far more than what I read and believed?
Or maybe clothing manufacture? Or food?
Who knows? But it's made me really curious about what it is out there that hasn't gone down during COVID? (And not just because I want to make a fast buck. It's genuine curiosity.)
The EPA knows! [0]
Global greenhouse gas emissions can also be broken down by the economic activities that lead to their production.[1]
25% is from electricity and heat production;
14% from transport;
6% from residential and commercial buildings;
21% from industry;
24% from agriculture, forestry and other land use;
10% from other energy uses.Source: IPCC (2014);
So it is power generation and farming.
That makes sense. Thanks.
So as a species, our big gains against global warming are going to be made by reducing CO2 output from the power generation and food production sectors.
https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector#energy-electr...
Maybe, but seeing how Western nation's personal transport being way down due to COVID having little effect on CO2 leads me believe the real issue for the future is China's manufacturing sector, which will not go down.