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by xnx 263 days ago
Could we say the same about flights to Hawaii? Small number of people take lavish vacations, everyone else gets the pollution.

It's good to look at the costs vs. benefits of everything, but satellite networks are way far down on my list of concern (and I do some astrophotography).
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ggoo 263 days ago
After just coming back from a trip to Maui, yeah you can totally say the same about flights to Hawaii.
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01HNNWZ0MV43FF 263 days ago
We should. A global pollution tax would shake out a lot of problems.

A strong and trustworthy global democracy to enforce it, and to provide for the general welfare of everyone currently trapped in car-based cities... Is left as a simple exercise to the reader

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JumpCrisscross 263 days ago
> A global pollution tax would shake out a lot of problems

There is a reason these taxes are popular among rich countries and opposed by emerging ones.

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