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Definitely something we should be looking to fine or tax.
Severe fines or taxes. Severe.
Like fatally?
For a business? The potential should be there.
Let’s dunk their head in the c02 exhaust.
And then everyone cries about high consumer prices, again. Edit: Bunch of reality deniers here. lol Enjoy the fascist uprisings.
I'd rather have a future than pay 5% less for whatever it is I currently want
My groceries are almost twice as expensive as just a few years ago. So "5%" is a very optimistic outlook. And while you may think that, 95% of the population won't. You can see that already in our current state that absolutely no one gives a shit about the climate. Not enough to take any sort of hit to their own comfort at least.
You think your groceries doubled because of the people trying to save the planet, and not because of the greed of the millionaire who owns the store who chose to raise the prices and kill unions so they could buy a pet yatch for their mega yatch?
No. I think that needed climate action would cost everyone dearly either way. If you think it doesn't then you are nothing but naive.
Money is made up. The climate apocalypse just destroyed Florida.
Yeah cuz that works sp much better than offering incentives to lower emissions.
They are functionally the same.
That said, a tax or fine would be easier to implement.
Fines and taxes are incentives. Companies will do whatever's cheapest, so you can make the good thing cheaper, or the bad thing more expensive. Both will have a similar effect, it's just a question of where the margins are.
If a company is selling something at-cost and gets taxed, then they'll have to raise prices for the consumer, but if they're getting a stimulus from the government it gets covered by tax payers. Which one ends up being the right choice depends on the product and company in question.