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Re:Denmark to charge $100 per cow in first carbon tax on far... by bryanlarsen on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @10:41AM (#40800668)
The proceeds from the tax are going to farmers, so it's regressiveness has been mitigated.

Agriculture is not a "bit player" in GHG emissions. It's one of the big 5, the others being electricity generation, transportation, heating and industry, each of which contributes >10%. It's also the sector without a clear path to decarbonization. Generation has renewables, transportation has EV's, heating has heat pumps, some industry has transition plans (and some doesn't)

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Re:Denmark to charge $100 per cow in first carbon tax on far... by bluefirebrand on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @02:38PM (#40803087)
> It's also the sector without a clear path to decarbonization

It's probably because humans are carbon based life forms and we need to eat carbon based foods to live

I hope we never successfully decarbonize agriculture

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