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Re:On board M5, the largest single-masted sailing yacht in t... by Leherenn on Thursday September 14, 2023 @03:31AM (#37506046)
Sure, but as you said in the end a carbon tax sounds more like a wealth redistribution scheme than something that helps with climate change.

If you give more money to the less well off, they'll just polute/consume more. Meanwhile the well offs will still consume as much and just pay a bit more for it.

Or you make it potent enough, but then it will only effectively affect the less well off. Unlikely to be popular.

Ultimately, it feels like you need a non-linear carbon tax, but it sounds unfeasible to implement.

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Re:On board M5, the largest single-masted sailing yacht in t... by morsch on Thursday September 14, 2023 @03:53AM (#37506173)
The idea is to make it potent enough to affect the behaviour of those 95% of the population that's responsible for 75% of the emissions (I made up that number, happy to be corrected) and whose behavior you can affect with economical nudging. No, they won't like that part.

But hopefully the extra income will soften the blow. The idea being that with it, you can either afford some of the high-emission-behavior you were used to. Or you can afford more of the low-emission-behavior than you were used to. Comparatively a lot more, because it's both taxed lower and you have extra income.

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