Global warming is so rampant that some scientists say we should begin altering the stratosphere to block incoming sunlight, even if it jeopardizes rain and crops
No you don’t. Just text the shit out of any of the imports until they are cost competitive with the domestic ones. […] Boo hoo. Cry me a river, I don’t give a shit. I give a shit about global warming not happening.
And this is the fundamental problem right here that you don’t understand. It doesn’t matter if you don’t give a shit; if it means suffering because they cannot sustain themselves now, they are not going to do it. When a solution doesn’t work, you don’t whine and demand the world reshape itself until your solution does work, you look for a better idea. We need real solutions that work in the real world, not technocratic dreaming of alternate realities.
Everything else in your post is just more jibberjabber that doesn’t mean anything. What I’ve proposed isn’t “Soviet”, it isn’t impoverishing (but what you suggested absolutely is, so don’t pretend to care about that), and it actually solves the problem instead of these candy-ass solutions. “Just tax everything and then the problem will just magically solve itself through innovation, somehow!” The product of a deeply unserious mind.
Get it through your head that these indirect methods that supposedly set in motion a series of events that will totally eventually fix it have never worked, they’re not going to work now, and we need real action and not people soying out over idealistic nonsense. Your time to try this passed by 30 years ago. Give up your silly Rube Goldberg contraptions and start looking for real, direct solutions.
And this is the fundamental problem right here that you don’t understand. It doesn’t matter if you don’t give a shit; if it means suffering because they cannot sustain themselves now, they are not going to do it. When a solution doesn’t work, you don’t whine and demand the world reshape itself until your solution does work, you look for a better idea. We need real solutions that work in the real world, not technocratic dreaming of alternate realities.
Everything else in your post is just more jibberjabber that doesn’t mean anything. What I’ve proposed isn’t “Soviet”, it isn’t impoverishing (but what you suggested absolutely is, so don’t pretend to care about that), and it actually solves the problem instead of these candy-ass solutions. “Just tax everything and then the problem will just magically solve itself through innovation, somehow!” The product of a deeply unserious mind.
Get it through your head that these indirect methods that supposedly set in motion a series of events that will totally eventually fix it have never worked, they’re not going to work now, and we need real action and not people soying out over idealistic nonsense. Your time to try this passed by 30 years ago. Give up your silly Rube Goldberg contraptions and start looking for real, direct solutions.
I’d say bring able to trade with one of the biggest nations in the world is a pretty darn good incentive to implement a carbon tax of their own.
You understand your idea of sustaining themselves is burning more carbon and letting their needs undercut our emissions reduction. This is a net loss.
Says the person whose “simple” solution involves a far far more disruptive answer whose unexpected consequences will far surpass a tax.
What trade? You told them to levy hefty import taxes on everything. You’ve killed most trade.
I want a collective effort to directly end carbon emissions. You just want to make it more expensive.