• Spzi@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Let’s fix that with carbon pricing: tax & dividend, applies to emissions but also captured atmospheric carbon, stored underground.

      So every participant in the carbon marked pays for what they emit.

      The revenue can be split among:

      • Funding removal
      • Distribute per capita to make the tax progressive
      • Fund things like renewables

      This could

      • make it profitable to run efficient carbon removal
      • net pay people who manage to live a low-footprint life

      It always would

      • create incentives for everyone involved (private people, investors, corporations, research) to make decisions which reduce emissions, if only to save / earn money.

      Price point: Take the current average price for removing one unit of greenhouse gas. Emitting one unit costs that much, increased by a factor (to fund more than just removal, or to achieve negative emissions).