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either individuals stop using corporations or individuals influence gov't members to enact changes to force corporations, the corporations are not going to do anything that might negatively impact their bottom lines
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How does that make sense if there are just as many opposed to using it?
In most countries this 'mechanism' is only relevant if a sizable majority of the electorate wants it, and there are no sufficiently motivated blocking interests.
Pigouvian taxes do just this. All you have to do is price carbon at the cost of removing it from the atmosphere and watch substitution effects take effect.
I do know that letting government solve the problem through regulation will be massively more expensive than solving it via the market.
Regulation is what needs to be done in order to shape the market in such a way it can solve the problem.
"The market" does not incorporate socialized costs when left to its own devices, quite the contrary. That's what got us here in the first place.
If your local utility burns coal or natural gas, there's not really any amount of shaming of the consumers that will change the carbon output of those utilities. If concrete and steel manufacturers are emitting carbon at hugely high rates, there's no amount of individual shaming of occupants of buildings made with that concrete and steel that will change that.
But regulations at the governmental level to direct those industries into emitting less carbon, that has a realistic path to actually making a different.
Wrong. This is what we NEED to do. People need to change their actions. Young people are doing this already.
We can't just have people driving everywhere.
It is of utmost importance that whatever those regulations would be, you shouldn't be able to buy your way out of them. Things like a personal consuming limit for "bad thing" X that is absolute and there is no way around to buy yourself more. Dystopian, sure, and in general I'm not even a fan of big government.
What could happen is governments could invest in making cities walkable, bikable, transit-able by default and people would naturally follow. Even that is a big ask at this point due to extreme sprawl, but it's the only way it's going to happen.