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Agree, though the ability to add a tax to goods/services for carbon seems unlikely in the US. I suspect people might be more agreeable if they knew there was a direct relationship between carbon tax and carbon abatement-and couldn't be squandered on something else (like cutting taxes for wealthy/multi-national corps). i.e. $1 of tax means $1 toward sequestration, or something like that.


Surveys have shown Americans have basically 0 inclination to pay more than $10/mo even if it would completely solve climate change for sure.

It's a good thing we don't live in a real democracy, because hopefully elites will wake up faster than that.




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