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    381 year ago

    I’m not sure what this has to do with climate scientists. What am I supposed to be looking at?

    Rishi has a history of making legislation to benefit the companies run or owned by friends and family. I would be extremely surprised if this didn’t also have a similar angle.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      Just some good old “whataboutism”. Maybe he sprinkles some climate-change denial into some prohibition discussion to distract us?

    • @SCB
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      -231 year ago

      Climate activists want to, among other things, pass extremely unpopular carbon taxes as they’re the most serious effort toward cutting fossil fuels usage

      Extremely unpopular ideas that inevitably favor certain products are not always moves to sell those products, is the point

      It’s pretty reasonable to assume no one outside the UK knows much about Sunak’s history with handouts to friends.

        • @WhiteHawk
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          -91 year ago

          The people that have to pay them, I assume

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            People who don’t understand we need to break our addiction to petroleum based fuel. Also People who make money off of petroleum based products.

            • @WhiteHawk
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              -41 year ago

              I think you overestimate the size of these two groups. The group of people who care more about their own financials is likely a lot larger.

              • @[email protected]
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                51 year ago

                Don’t care thier fucking size.

                I care how loud these choads are and how many they might sway.

                • @WhiteHawk
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                  -11 year ago

                  Because the number of people voting for something is irrelevant? Yeah, makes sense.

              • @Gabu
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                21 year ago

                Good luck eating and drinking money.

                • @WhiteHawk
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                  21 year ago

                  I never said that I agreed with them.

          • Spzi
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            11 year ago

            That’s a matter of proper implementation. Tax & dividend! Distribute the tax revenue to the population per capita.

            That means:

            • If your emissions are average, you pay/earn net zero.
            • If you emit more than average, you pay. This will affect mostly rich people, since emissions strongly correlate with available money.
            • If you emit less than average, you net earn. This effectively rewards people with money gained for emissions prevented.

            Since money is distributed unequally in society, this means most people will have to pay less in such a system.

            The beautiful thing is, the financial incentive to emit less remains even for people who gain more than they pay. It’s also an incentive both for buyers and sellers, researchers and investors.