Re:Concrete: The material that's 'too vast to imagine'
by ajmurmann on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @09:31AM
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Why not both? If we had a carbon tax the market would drive us to save wherever is most achievable
Re:Concrete: The material that's 'too vast to imagine'
by yonaguska on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @09:49AM
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That is until the well-connected lobby carbon tax loopholes into the implementation and use the carbon tax yet another tool for regulatory capture to stomp out competition. Or, companies simply shift more production to developing countries to skirt taxes. We can create ecological disasters over there instead...
While I like the idea of attaching monetary costs to otherwise ignored externalities, I don't see the carbon tax having any chance of being fairly and effectively implemented.
Re:Concrete: The material that's 'too vast to imagine'
by kaibee on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:05AM
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> That is until the well-connected lobby carbon tax loopholes into the implementation
This is a fully general counter-argument against doing anything.
iirc Canada has a carbon-tax and its working fine?
Re:Concrete: The material that's 'too vast to imagine'
by orhmeh09 on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:09AM
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Working fine by what measure?
Re:Concrete: The material that's 'too vast to imagine'
by imtringued on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @04:08AM
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Introduce CO2 tariffs. Get the republicans on board through protectionist policies that actually make sense.
We could solve these issues “today” in a sense. Creating new carbon neutral building materials that last as long as current stuff seems like a huge risk.
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...