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At COP28, the United States Will Stress an End to Fossil Emissions, Not Fuels
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this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2023
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@albertcardona @silence7 @neanderthal It seems that most of our current problems could be solved by "internalising" externalities.
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When externalities in beef production in the US get internalized into the cost to consumers, meat will become unaffordable, the whole industry would collapse. Likely a good thing.
Consider subsidies to oil exploration, oil production, oil transportation, corn, corn processing, and tax cuts to all of these.