re: #492 Guanxi88

I’m a fan of biochar because, if nothing else, it does no harm to the broader environment, and has demonstrable benefits for agriculture.

The most “popular” solutions entail massive and expensive interventions by the State and/or parties acting on behalf of the state. They ALWAYS involve taxation, which is a coercive taking. To fix the problem, you don’t tax it out of existence.

Simple, sustainable technologies exist. They work, and are adaptable to local conditions and circumstances, and can do a great deal of good. And they’re voluntary. No coercion is required to implement them.

The folk proposing to tax the hell outta the first world and deny the developing world cheap and abundant energy from proven resources are not interested in any fix that doesn’t involve manipulation and control of other human beings. A perfect solution, assuming one existed, that did not require taxing powers would not proposed by any government.

I agree about biochar.

Regarding the second bolded point I agree as well. But that’s not the case. If it was we’d be on the way to fixing things already. We need governement because only government can tackle a problem this large. There’s no price for carbon so there’s no market forces to cause companies to innovate to decrease it.