• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    That isn’t always the case though. Just look at climate scientists.

    Some just want to ban smoking because they see how much damage it has done in their community.

    But I’d also like to know if there was any vested interests.

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      I’m not sure what this has to do with climate scientists. What am I supposed to be looking at?

      Rishi has a history of making legislation to benefit the companies run or owned by friends and family. I would be extremely surprised if this didn’t also have a similar angle.

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        1 year ago

        Just some good old “whataboutism”. Maybe he sprinkles some climate-change denial into some prohibition discussion to distract us?

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        Climate activists want to, among other things, pass extremely unpopular carbon taxes as they’re the most serious effort toward cutting fossil fuels usage

        Extremely unpopular ideas that inevitably favor certain products are not always moves to sell those products, is the point

        It’s pretty reasonable to assume no one outside the UK knows much about Sunak’s history with handouts to friends.

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              People who don’t understand we need to break our addiction to petroleum based fuel. Also People who make money off of petroleum based products.

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              That’s a matter of proper implementation. Tax & dividend! Distribute the tax revenue to the population per capita.

              That means:

              • If your emissions are average, you pay/earn net zero.
              • If you emit more than average, you pay. This will affect mostly rich people, since emissions strongly correlate with available money.
              • If you emit less than average, you net earn. This effectively rewards people with money gained for emissions prevented.

              Since money is distributed unequally in society, this means most people will have to pay less in such a system.

              The beautiful thing is, the financial incentive to emit less remains even for people who gain more than they pay. It’s also an incentive both for buyers and sellers, researchers and investors.

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      It’s Rishi Sunak. Of course he has a financial interest somewhere.

      It won’t work, though. Hell. He might be getting paid off by big Tabacco- make smoking edgy and rebellious again so more kids start up.

      It’s the kind of thing those ghouls would try.

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      1 year ago

      Rishi Sunak also just promised to ensure cars will be able to drive through heavily populated areas indefinitely and has pushed back plans to introduce electric-only cars. He absolutely does not care about peoples’ health.