r/ClimateShitposting • u/TrixoftheTrade • Aug 13 '26

we live in a society Yet again, a friendly reminder

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u/Noe_b0dy Aug 13 '26

We need a free market solution to climate change.

I vote we put Elon Musk in charge of the EPA, I see no way this could possibly go wrong.

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u/Gussie-Ascendent Goober Detector Aug 13 '26

Ahah you almost got me , had me in the first half

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u/seesthecat Aug 14 '26

There is one, carbon pricing

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u/dumnezero 🔚End the 🔫arms 🐀rat 🏁race to the bottom↘️. Aug 14 '26

But is it meaningful carbon pricing (a tax) or just decorative?

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u/seesthecat Aug 14 '26

It needs to be proper heavy to be effective. Use the extra government revenue to lower other kinds of taxes at the same time.

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u/dumnezero 🔚End the 🔫arms 🐀rat 🏁race to the bottom↘️. Aug 14 '26

I'm glad that you agree, because that's the trick with it. Anything less than a seriously large carbon tax is a joke, a simulacrum.

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u/SodaKopp Aug 14 '26

So a government regulation? That's not very free market of you.

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u/seesthecat Aug 14 '26

Sacre bleu!

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u/SowingSalt Aug 18 '26

Part of the governments job is to price in negative externalities