The pointis we do NOT at this time have even more costly policies in place that will optimize the CO2 concentration of the atmosphere. Abolition, the personal; income tax, female suggerage were non-starters at one point.
Plausible speculations, but downstream from just taxing the net co2 emissions and letting entrepreneurs (including public sector entrepreneurs) figure out least costs ways of supplying the energy that net taxation of net CO2 emissions makes uneconomic.
Sure, economists have pointed out that taxing carbon is the best way of dealing with global warming, but it is a political nonstarter. What I proposed is one way to get around this. Politics is just as important as physics in tech development.
I did not see what you DID propose.
The pointis we do NOT at this time have even more costly policies in place that will optimize the CO2 concentration of the atmosphere. Abolition, the personal; income tax, female suggerage were non-starters at one point.
Yes, and women's suffrage came 70 years after Seneca Falls. Can we afford to wait that long?
I'm not saying wait. I'm saying start and persist. :)
In the meantime do anything with a NPV>0
Plausible speculations, but downstream from just taxing the net co2 emissions and letting entrepreneurs (including public sector entrepreneurs) figure out least costs ways of supplying the energy that net taxation of net CO2 emissions makes uneconomic.
Sure, economists have pointed out that taxing carbon is the best way of dealing with global warming, but it is a political nonstarter. What I proposed is one way to get around this. Politics is just as important as physics in tech development.