Make the carbon tax revenue neutral, and pitch it as leveling the playing field and a boon to the local economy.
Sure, there are tons of details to work out, but I think this should be doable.
Make the carbon tax revenue neutral, and pitch it as leveling the playing field and a boon to the local economy.
Sure, there are tons of details to work out, but I think this should be doable.
How, roughly, could this work politically at a global level, in a way that also works within the politics of each individual country?
William Nordhaus has done the math, you can read his papers for more details and appropriate levels. Of course the fact that we didn't implement in 2015 when he did his calculations means that the appropriate levels are higher than they were then.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-climatechange-insig...
oh, and there's all the other shit china does of course https://nationalpost.com/news/world/scientists-discover-chin...
but somehow people dodge the issue every time with 'but the usa per capita' as if these measurement are really comparable.
e: wow, struck a nerve there? sourced with articles, even. now let's wait for dang to come and say this is 'unsubstantive'