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Elon Musk: "revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax"
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Dec 04 2015 04:35 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Musk makes a good point:.
. . . Monetary incentives and taxes are not the only reason why people,
. . . will do the right things. Most people want to help.
The problem is that the current system favors the bad outcomes:
. . . . . . favoring fossil fuels,
. . . . . . inertia in favor of incumbent technologies,
. . . . . . taxing good things but subsidizing polluting ones,
. . . . . . etc, so it's an uphill battle and everything is slower.
Humanity is still moving in the right direction on many fronts despite these hurdles,
. . . but things would progress much faster,
. . . if the system was actually designed to make the good choices easier to achieve
. . . (ie. taxing carbon would shift tremendous resources toward clean energy, and
. . . rapidly make prices drop).
12-4-2015 Source: Elon Musk: "revenue-neutral carbon tax"
. . . Monetary incentives and taxes are not the only reason why people,
. . . will do the right things. Most people want to help.
The problem is that the current system favors the bad outcomes:
. . . . . . favoring fossil fuels,
. . . . . . inertia in favor of incumbent technologies,
. . . . . . taxing good things but subsidizing polluting ones,
. . . . . . etc, so it's an uphill battle and everything is slower.
Humanity is still moving in the right direction on many fronts despite these hurdles,
. . . but things would progress much faster,
. . . if the system was actually designed to make the good choices easier to achieve
. . . (ie. taxing carbon would shift tremendous resources toward clean energy, and
. . . rapidly make prices drop).
12-4-2015 Source: Elon Musk: "revenue-neutral carbon tax"
