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U.S. Emissions Rise 4.2%, China's Fall 2.7%

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196 points triceratops | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 20:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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K0nserv ◴[02 Sep 25 21:48 UTC] No.45109548[source]▶
The US, like most democracies, is worse at long term planning. It needs robust incentives to counteract short term instincts.

A $100/ton carbon tax would raise $490b(based on 4.9 billion tons of co2 emissions[0]) per year that could be distributed to lower income households (to offset the effect, making the tax progressive) and be used to fund green energy investment.

0: https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/united-states

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1. rsynnott ◴[03 Sep 25 17:30 UTC] No.45118408[source]▶
The US is likely particularly bad at long term planning, even relative to other democracies, at least partially due to the strong executive. It's really easy, and almost expected, for long-term projects to get changed or outright scrapped when control of the executive changes; this is less common in parliamentary democracies (and in oddities like the French system).