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by cmarschner 978 days ago
Only short term, as increased prices give incentives to produce things without carbon emissions.

Besides, these prices have always been there as external costs. You just never paid them. This needs to stop anyway.

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Yes but if only we pay them and the rest of the world doesn't, we're just hurting ourselves.

And I don't believe in the market ever solving these problems even with the right incentives.

Why should developing countries share the externalities for products that you consume and use?

Maybe the market won't be able to solve these problems even with appropriate measures like those suggested here. Your argument seems to be, "it won't work so we shouldn't try because it will be worse for us" which doesn't seem convincing to me.

The money we pay doesn't magically disappear, it goes to the state as revenue. We could use said revenue to do like a UBI or something to counteract the negative effects.