That's why we need a carbon tax. To force people to.
That's the problem already. We've had a CO2 price for a long time - but it's meaninglessly low. I can only presume because of lobbying from those with vested interests.
Unfortunately I could only find sources in french or hebrew but the amounts amassed by this operation is staggering.
[0]https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraude_%C3%A0_la_TVA_sur_les...
Imho, government trying to sin-tax away CO2 is result of our failure to invest in technology solutions.
If their neighbors are buying cheap goods, they probably will too.
But middle-income families typically aren't going to spend 25-50% more on a comparable product to save on CO2.
There was a big push decades ago to buy American, but it largely failed because for the majority of people living paycheck to paycheck, spending 25-50% more to have an American flag sticker on your purchase wasn't worth it.
We need tariffs on imports from polluting countries.
So we need to redistribute the carbon tax as UBI. So people say “more carbon tax please!” Climate Justice. Contact Andrew Yang who is running for President and tell him his UBI needs to be funded with a carbon tax!
If they wanted to impose it on China's oil trade with Saudi or Russia, it would have to be done militarily.
And that still leaves the question how to impose a carbon tax on China's domestic coal and oil.
1. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/climate-chang...
Please correct me if I'm misunderstanding: 2/3rds of households would first have to pay up, and then they'll get more money back than they paid in? If that's true, it sounds like it would be instituting needless added complexity, with a layer added for politicians and bureaucrats to take a cut before giving it back.
