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Are you ready for "personal carbon allowances"?


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2021 Sep 7, 10:45am   337 views  8 comments

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In this context, the introduction of personal carbon allowances (PCAs), a mitigation policy proposal developed in the 1990s5, is ripe for revisitation. This policy aims to link personal action with global carbon reduction goals. A PCA scheme would entail all adults receiving an equal, tradable carbon allowance that reduces over time in line with national targets. In its original design, the allowance could cover around 40% of energy-related carbon emissions in high-income countries, encompassing individuals’ carbon emissions relating to travel, space heating, water heating and electricity6. Allowances were envisioned to be deducted from the personal budget with every payment for transport fuel, home-heating fuels and electricity bills. People in shortage would be able to purchase additional units in the personal carbon market from those with excess to sell. New, more ambitious PCA proposals include economy-wide emissions, encompassing food, services and consumption-related carbon emissions7, for example.

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Similar to a carbon tax, a policy with which it is often compared, the economic mechanism of PCAs is envisaged to influence decision-making by assigning a visible carbon price to the purchase and use of fossil-fuel-based energy in the first instance, and possibly also to consumption-related emissions in more advanced PCA designs.

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For instance, machine-learning algorithms could be trained to automatically gather all the available information on someone’s emissions, and to fill data gaps and accurately estimate an individual’s carbon emissions on the basis of limited data inputs such as stops at petrol stations, check-ins at venues and travel histories.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00756-w

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1   Karloff   2021 Sep 7, 1:25pm  

These people are crazy, maniacal, and horrifyingly well-funded. Based on how far they've gotten with the covid tyranny, it seems likely that they could actually force this on the world once they have their precious global ID implemented.
2   Eric Holder   2021 Sep 7, 5:22pm  

In particular, during the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictions on individuals for the sake of public health, and forms of individual accountability and responsibility that were unthinkable only one year before, have been adopted by millions of people. People may be more prepared to accept the tracking and limitations related to PCAs to achieve a safer climate and the many other benefits (for example, reduced air pollution and improved public health) associated with addressing the climate crisis. Other lessons that could be drawn relate to the public acceptance in some countries of additional surveillance and control in exchange for greater safety. For instance, in many countries, mobile apps designed for COVID-19 infection tracking and tracing played an important part in limiting the spread of the pandemic. The deployment and testing of such apps provide technology advances and insights for the design of future apps for tracking personal emissions. Recent studies show how COVID-19 contact-tracing apps were successfully implemented with mandatory schemes in several East Asian countries, such as China, Taiwan and South Korea43. In these countries, the apps assessed each user’s travel history and health status, playing a key role in tracking infections43. These unique natural experiments give insights into possible strategies to use apps to track PCAs. For instance, the many digital contact-tracing algorithms that were developed and tested43,44 provide initial valuable information for the design of future apps that—for example—estimate emissions on the basis of tracking the user’s movement history.


Cheeky bastards!
3   HeadSet   2021 Sep 7, 6:19pm  

Note that nothing applies to the mass inflow of illegals:
Nobody cares that all those 3rd Worlders will now increase their carbon footprint in a 1st World society
Nobody cares that all this mass inflow of unvaxxed and untested will spread Covid
4   Patrick   2021 Dec 27, 10:02pm  

https://nitter.net/HumanProgress/status/1474696502765363201?source=patrick.net#m

Sahara is shrinking global tree coverage increasing due to more CO2 in atmosphere.
5   Ceffer   2021 Dec 27, 10:25pm  

Biden has promised each and every illegal immigrant a monster truck if only they will take up arms against the American citizenry.
6   RWSGFY   2021 Dec 27, 10:27pm  

Patrick says
https://nitter.net/HumanProgress/status/1474696502765363201?source=patrick.net#m

Sahara is shrinking global tree coverage increasing due to more CO2 in atmosphere.


Nooooooo!
7   Patrick   2021 Dec 27, 10:44pm  

Ceffer says
Biden has promised each and every illegal immigrant a monster truck if only they will take up arms against the American citizenry.


This fits with the summary of leftist politics I read here:

https://www.thehebrewconservative.com/2021/06/21/the-romo-razor-how-to-explain-the-left/?source=patrick.net


When you can’t find an explanation for the Left’s behavior, try the simplest one: They are after destroying America. Once you apply the Romo Razor, things become very clear: BLM riots can be used against America, therefore they shall be sanctified. Going to church is a feature of traditional America, therefore it should be banned.

Mass shootings committed by whites are a good assault on the Second Amendment and America’s traditional liberties; mass shootings committed by blacks are uncomfortable, so no need to bring those up. The #MeToo movement is useful for attacking conservative judges, upholding America’s Constitution, but it has no use if applied against a leftist presidential candidate.
8   clambo   2021 Dec 28, 4:50am  

My pet peeve is calling CO2 gas “carbon”.

It’s like calling water “hydrogen”.

The whole global warming hoax needs to end, the earth is covered with plants and trees which use CO2 as a nutrient.

I’m a proponent of conservation however.

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