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Brett Scott: Beware a cashless society

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

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Is There a Green Transition?

COP 27 has been talking about an idea of a carbon tracker, which would effectively give points for carbon neutral purchases and then deduct points for carbon emitting purchases. Is that not coming close to that kind of Chinese social credit system? Well, you'd have to actually see when that's actually implemented, right? They're saying October 2023, perhaps for a launch. The thing about places like the UK is, I mean, imagine trying to implement that in the UK. You'd have a lot more social protests than a place like China, right? So yeah,. All these types of payments, chaperoning systems or watching payments and scoring systems can be applied to many, many different things

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