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Re:Is your Netflix queue destroying the environment? by randallsquared on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @08:11PM (#414930)
One problem is that if it turns out that we enter a cooling period (due to solar activity decrease or something else), it seems unlikely that such a tax would be repealed just because it was actively harmful (cf. prohibition).
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Re:Is your Netflix queue destroying the environment? by emmett on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @04:32PM (#415921)
Presume for a moment that you believe global warm is a real and present danger. Then a carbon tax makes perfect sense.

I agree if you think that global warming is uncertain, or that perhaps we actually want to increase CO2 in the atmosphere, a carbon tax would be a bad idea.

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