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Originally Posted by Fuzz
It's actually kind of crazy. The essentials, food, electricity, heat etc are all going to get more expensive, mostly through artificial taxes. The non-essential crap made in China is going to continue to stay artificially cheap. What a wonderful policy, eh?
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It's why all Carbon tax should be paid by the consumer as VAT type tax based on the actual or estimated carbon impact of a good and all exports should be excempt from Carbon taxes.
These taxes aren't artificial. They are lifecycle based costs that actually probably still undervalue the cost of carbon reduction.
Though we currently have the technology to reduce the amount of sunlight getting to earth which could solve global warming relatively cheaply. Certainly cheaper than massive societal change. It doesn't solve ocean acidification and comes with uncertain side affects but based on the current trends we should be acting now with the interim solutions.