Greenpeace InternationalYou spill someone’s drink, you buy them another.
You break a window, you pay for it.
Let’s make that true for oil and gas corporations.
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Why We Went Extinct@praustrian @greenpeace that is also a model of responsibility. To me it implies that everyone has equal 'guilt' and feels the consequences equally.
However, most consumers of oil/gas have no incentive to buy less:
- big users have the most to gain and the least to lose.
- they are not well informed of the consequences.
- 'if my neighbor does it, why shouldn't I?' -> 'I only will use less if everyone is using less' -> uniform laws / penalties (which to me you seem to not be in support of)
@praustrian @greenpeace on the other hand, letting big companies pay seems appropriate:
it is fair: a big part of their profit comes from letting others pay (tax payers who need to pay to clean up / climate and drilling victims) for the consequences.
It is effective:
- it will reduce their profits, which reduces the incentive to invest in them
- and/or increases the price of oil/gas which is an incentive to buy less
- it taxes a multinational so it might have cross border impact