Denmark to charge $100 per cow in first carbon tax on farming

Re:Denmark to charge $100 per cow in first carbon tax on far... by vman81 on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @10:22AM (#40800436)

This doesn't make "food" more expensive. It makes specific food options more expensive. The options that tax the environment deserve to be taxed.

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Re:Denmark to charge $100 per cow in first carbon tax on far... by bluefirebrand on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @02:34PM (#40803031)

Nothing humans do has no impact on the environment

Remove cow pastures and replace them with vegetables, now we're running tractors and harvesters which burn gasoline, amd we're spraying pesticides and other stuff Not to mention fertilizer, which is made of....?

Everything we choose to do is a tradeoff

All this is doing is making it so all of our options suck equally

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Re:Denmark to charge $100 per cow in first carbon tax on far... by mollerhoj on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @03:55PM (#40803959)

Everything has tradeoffs. This is legislation to try and reduce emissions from co2 and methane. It was suggested by a group of expects in the relevant fields, and our politicians went with it. Growing vegetables obviously has less negative climate impact than beef.

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Re:Denmark to charge $100 per cow in first carbon tax on far... by Clubber on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @11:08PM (#40806826)

>It was suggested by a group of expects in the relevant fields, and our politicians went with it.

So calculate how much do dairy cows in Denmark contribute to climate change. This was feel good legislation that won't make a lick of difference in climate change, but will make milk more expensive.

How do people not see through this? There's a sucker born every day and some days are better than others.

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