• filister@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    While also having one of the highest energy prices in Europe.

    But seriously we should try to cut the percentage of our electricity that is being produced by coal. This should be our first priority, even if it means to temporarily replace it with gas. Then gas emissions are once again on the rise due to the general trend of producing ever bigger cars.

    Meat consumption and deforestation, combined with higher risk of wild fires, etc.

    I hope in the future we manage to create sustainable nuclear fusion reactor and we ditch all non renewable energy sources.

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      1 year ago

      A high carbon tax would fit perfectly. Introduce it at the start of the system such that it directly affects those that pollute the most, and vice versa.

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          Yeah I think you are right. But it should be equal to the environmental cost per co2 amount. So if consuming x amount of co2 costs y amount of environmental damage, then the tax should be y amount per x co2 produced.

          I am guessing the current tax is way below anything like this.