
Externalities
Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
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Externalities Are a Real Problem, Is It Possible?
We have more externalities now to deal with than ever before. The ocean is filled top to bottom with plastic, and people who produce the plastic don't have to pay to clean it up. Instead of banning things or just wringing our hands, we let the market pay attention to the problem that the industrialists have caused. And the way you do that is by giving people a carbon dividend. Establish a base line, and everybody who uses less than that base line in carbon gets a check, cash money. People who use more than that amount of carbon have to paid to do so there are lots of ways to implement this. Capin trade is one of them. But basically what
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