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by Dylan16807 2729 days ago
Not really. There doesn't need to be a "cap". You can tax every single ton of net carbon.

Traditional cap-and-trade has a very valid criticism that it doesn't fix the problem, only limits it slightly and moves it around. If you add carbon-removers into the equation, and set things up to have 0 or even negative carbon per year, and then you actually do fix the problem.