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tulaka

I confidently believe that the environment is more important than the human progress. What do you choose - to be dead and rich or to be alive and poor? I choose the latter, since if you're dead, you need no welfare :) . You should know that industrial companies emit daily tens of thousands of tons of CO2 into the environment. Only a very little share of them are official, the other share is hidden for avoiding taxes. What officials do? Officials, as well as producers, are more interested in the economic part, not the social one. Thus, they don't hasten to punish too much the producers, since the country's economy must be raised. Do you think it's fair? To me, the taxes on environment pollution must be at least 3 times higher than the assessed harm.

Cold_as_ice

We certainly don't want to return to the stone age. That's why imposing big taxes on pollution will make producers raise prices for their production, which will influence negatively the final consumer.

Maximus

Cold_as_ice wrote: We certainly don't want to return to the stone age. That's why imposing big taxes on pollution will make producers raise prices for their production, which will influence negatively the final consumer. In this case, governments should issue regulations saying that companies' products price shouldn't be related to environment taxes. It's a little bit tough, but feasible.