erryone be talking about global warming but no one actually wants to do anything that would actually solve it like geoengineering or mass nuclear. theyre just aesthetic primitivistshttps://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1426185570594689029 …
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"global warming is going to kill us all" "ok lets geoengineer that shit" "blllllllluuuuhhhh but that doesnt sound safe" you see the issue with this line of reasoning right
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no one actually cares about global warming as a problem to be solved. its just intense virtue signalling of the worst kind in the sense of appearing to care about a problem is everything and resolving it is nothing carbon taxes? great solution. And Yethttps://www.vox.com/2016/10/18/13012394/i-732-carbon-tax-washington …
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Replying to @Doc_BadVibes
you can make carbon taxes revenue neutral by offsetting with tax cuts elsewhere if you like. I would prefer this myself. it wouldnt raise cost of living everywhere; in the revenue neutral case it would lower cost of living in low carbon use areas
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but to the extent that it incentivizes people away from high intensity carbon areas, or technologies to make high carbon areas lower carbon, thats definitely the point
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for evidence that they do work, on a smaller scale, you can look at how we solved acid rain with cap and trade (functionally/economically equivalent) the major real problem with carbon taxes is that you would need china and India to implement them
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Replying to @eigenrobot @Doc_BadVibes
I haven't read the article, but I think the thing, though, is there's hardly any alternative that is as convenient in multiple dimensions as fossil fuels, which probably wasn't that much of a problem when looking for alternatives to carbon with high S content
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I don't think we're gonna be using anything else in airplanes yeah
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