I think a lot of people don’t get the situation with our friend CO2 and taxation thereof. (Probably fewer in LJ-land than elsewhere, but regardless)<\/p>\n
A tax on CO2 is not going to affect your breathing. Let’s talk about carbon for a sec. There are three relevant stores of carbon on earth. 1) the atmosphere (CO2) 2) all life on the planet (fats, carbs, and a bunch of other chenicals) and 3) subterranean stores (coal, oil, etc).<\/p>\n
Atmospheric and living carbon trade back and forth. Plants turn CO2 into sugars, and we reverse that process (to simplify). That is not a problem. <\/p>\n
But, when we turn subterranean carbon into atmospheric carbon there is no easy way to put it back underground. Most of our electricity and the overwhelming majority of our transportation turns previously subterranean carbon into atmospheric carbon.<\/p>\n
So the obvious and easy way to tax it is to tax the carbon as we extract it from the ground, or as it comes into our ports. So you can breathe a little easier; your lungs are not part of global warming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I think a lot of people don’t get the situation with our friend CO2 and taxation thereof. (Probably fewer in LJ-land than elsewhere, but regardless) A tax on CO2 is not going to affect your breathing. Let’s talk about carbon for a sec. There are three relevant stores of carbon on earth. 1) the atmosphere … Continue reading “explaining carbon taxation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}