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Re:We Could Brighten Clouds to Cool the Earth by FredPret on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:26AM (#28455542)
Uhhhh, no. What about electricity that goes into mining and manufacturing? If you raise the price of that, all goods become more expensive, from the simple Mars bar up to construction. The poor will be decimated.
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Re:We Could Brighten Clouds to Cool the Earth by mavhc on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:28AM (#28455555)
Companies will compete to find ways to produce things with less pollution if they can't cheat and pollute without paying.

And other companies will compete to find cheaper ways to remove pollution, lowering costs for those who pollute.

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Re:We Could Brighten Clouds to Cool the Earth by myrmidon on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @11:39AM (#28458695)
> If you raise the price of that, all goods become more expensive, from the simple Mars bar up to construction.

You can just change e.g. income tax accordingly so expected tax load stays the same-- only now your citizens are financially incentivized to save electricity...

Also you have a convenient excuse (as nation state) for protectionist import tariffs hitting all countries that don't practise Co2 taxation themselves (which might be nice for local economy)

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Re:We Could Brighten Clouds to Cool the Earth by pessimizer on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:30AM (#28455570)
The poor are decimated when we allow them to be, not when prices rise by 50%.
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Re:We Could Brighten Clouds to Cool the Earth by FredPret on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:37AM (#28455637)
OK, let’s jack up prices for everything from food to infrastructure but in a magical way that doesn’t harm low-income people. Great plan bro
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Re:We Could Brighten Clouds to Cool the Earth by asd4232 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:23AM (#28456594)
Bruh here in Europe there's a thing called welfare state. The gov can pay poor people to compensate.
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Re:We Could Brighten Clouds to Cool the Earth by FredPret on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:29AM (#28456648)
Another fantastic idea. Get free money from somewhere and simply give it to poor people, so they can stop being poor.

That way we can tax the crap out of all those productive people people and companies over there without worrying about any economic consequences.

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