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This sounds like a very good plan. The best part of it is that a single country can institute it on it’s own - just start taxing products and imports by carbon! A big enough country could move the needle, and encourage others to take action.

Instead, the only actual ideas that actual people actually propose are 100% braindead.

Ban meat (lol), ban nuclear (lol lol), ban plastic straws (lol lol lol), ...

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This style of argumentation is chilling the discussion. Please stop with the ad hominems.

There are many overlapping problems, not only climate change. It's complex. Partial solutions are still solutions. They are just incomplete

I disagree. I think that partial solutions (or, in cases I listed above, anti-solutions) steal the enthusiasm from real solutions. Giving people the ego-boost and emotional satisfaction of solving the problem, but actually making it worse.

Perhaps we can agree to disagree without being derogatory to each other.

You will continue to see things in black and white "the problem", "real solutions".

I will continue to see a mosaic of overlapping issues.

Sorry, no disrespect meant to you personally. I just ridicule and disrespect bad ideas.

Alright. But please be aware that it is possible to chill discussion through stridency. I don't believe this applies only to me.

the ideas aren't bad though, you just don't agree with them. Banning meat isn't something I would get on board with but it would probably be effective. There's been a lot of discussion lately on HN about nuclear and I can actually see both sides of the debate. Plastic straws I think you have actually just strawmanned environmentalists here as I've never seen plastic straws mentioned as a solution or contributor to global warming.

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