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Re:Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws by _bent on Monday September 30, 2024 @09:08AM (#41696694)
The issue is that they do not work. If your constituents made bad investments and are stuck with oil heating because they heard that solar is woke on Fox, you cannot actually have them face the consequences of their actions. You will either not be elected or the media response will be so bad that you won't be able to govern. You will have to bail them out or add exemptions
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Re:Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws by jeauxlb on Monday September 30, 2024 @09:15AM (#41696758)
This is easily solved. Particularly as industry is such a large contributor to GHG emissions, imposing a carbon tax on industry and possibly even allowing grandfathering allows the costs to be baked in to (only) future considerations, and makes cleaner companies more competitive compared to dirtier ones.
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Re:Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws by naasking on Monday September 30, 2024 @10:15AM (#41697343)
Baking them into future decisions will not be enough. Sorry, if people made bad investments it will teach them to be smarter. Accomodations can only go so far to be effective.
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