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Re:IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from bei... by CuriousSkeptic on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @05:58AM (#25926690)
Sounds exactly like the kind of problem market economies handles very well.

Main problem is figuring out how to incorporate emissions into price signals.

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Re:IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from bei... by Marazan on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @06:41AM (#25927037)
Pricing negative externialities is EXACTLY the kind of thing market economies are terrible at.
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Re:IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from bei... by CuriousSkeptic on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:05AM (#25927706)
Which was kind of my point. How can we internalize the externalities?
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Re:IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from bei... by pietrovismara on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @06:04AM (#25926733)
> Sounds exactly like the kind of problem

It didn't really work out so far, otherwise we wouldn't be talking about an emergency.

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