What about if instead of buying carbon credits: or pollution credits, everyone was issued a fixed amount. Say when you get your tax check back, you also get a check for 1000 carbon/pollution credits. Say some place like DC which has real bad pollution problems charges 10 carbon credits a day for cars to enter. Yet some place that has no pollution problem like ...... umm ...... Finley, NSW .... doesnt charge anything. So a Hummer driving into DC each day would deplete their credits quickly. You could also be precious about yours and not sell them too, or you could flog them off to the highest hummer bidder.
The problem with that scenario is that governments will allow Dell and Walmart to be exempt from it, in order to get them in their county. Which doesnt help the problem, and just offloads the cost of pollution to the average person again.
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