Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea temps & extreme weather

Re:Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea t... by CuriousSkeptic on Sunday September 10, 2023 @04:43PM (#37459876)

You scenario seems to only correlate increasing price with lower consumption.

I think there should also be viable paths where increased prices for some energy forms translates to increased demand for cleaner forms instead

A carbon tax matched by a matching carbon dividend could transfer funds to poor people.

A fuel consumption tax can be matched by a matching tax cut on miles driven. Transferring demand from fossil fuel to other transportation means.

There may be loads of pitfalls in those two example of course, they are mostly meant to illustrate the point.

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Re:Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea t... by Gareth321 on Monday September 11, 2023 @09:09AM (#37466697)

The goal is to make energy cheaper. I would much prefer it to be clean energy, but this is secondary. If we could devise a way to make clean energy cheaper than untaxed fossil fuels, I’m all in. It just hasn’t worked that way so far, and activists are almost entirely focused on making fossil fuels more expensive, rather than clean energy cheaper.

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