silence7M to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.English · 1 year ago‘Under no circumstances’: John Kerry rules out U.S. paying climate reparations to low-income countrieswww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up160arrow-down12
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minus-squareMrMakabarlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-211 months agoIf you look at carbon intensity of GDP, the US is actually below global average and Europe especially western Europe is at about half of it. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-intensity That obviously makes it a bad tool to pay for carbon debt, as it hurts poorer countries.
minus-squareabessmanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoA just global carbon taxation system would need to take into account historical emissions.
minus-squareMrMakabarlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoI would just go for a carbon tax, without historic emissions and a wealth tax to hit the people who are actually benefiting from historic emissions. Thats propably about as fair as it gets.
Not if we enact a broad carbon tax 🤗
If you look at carbon intensity of GDP, the US is actually below global average and Europe especially western Europe is at about half of it. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-intensity
That obviously makes it a bad tool to pay for carbon debt, as it hurts poorer countries.
A just global carbon taxation system would need to take into account historical emissions.
I would just go for a carbon tax, without historic emissions and a wealth tax to hit the people who are actually benefiting from historic emissions. Thats propably about as fair as it gets.