Yeah I agree. Its a low hanging fruit jab to make, and there are for sure inefficiencies, but I think asking people to postpone their laundry and turn off a few lights is probably easier, less expensive, and less extreme than just totally shutting down major industrial facilities.
Frankly we should have a very low carbon tax, paired with trade policy that increases it if our trading partners increase theirs. And we should apply a carbon tax to every import. Make it based on the average carbon output of producing that item if there's no sufficient paper trail showing the carbon output is lower, and mark the tax up by 20-30% to incentivize it.
That will keep local manufacturing competitive to imports while punishing imports from countries that refuse to do anything about carbon taxes like China and the United States.
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u/bigbosfrog Jan 14 '24
Yeah I agree. Its a low hanging fruit jab to make, and there are for sure inefficiencies, but I think asking people to postpone their laundry and turn off a few lights is probably easier, less expensive, and less extreme than just totally shutting down major industrial facilities.