ILikeNeurons
ILikeNeurons t1_iw2od7q wrote
Reply to comment by PM_RiceBowlRecipes in Rooftop Solar Is Becoming More Accessible to People with Lower Incomes, But Not Fast Enough - Inside Climate News by darth_nadoma
I used MIT's climate policy simulator to order its climate policies from least impactful to most impactful. You can see the results here.
ILikeNeurons t1_iw2mqs6 wrote
Reply to Rooftop Solar Is Becoming More Accessible to People with Lower Incomes, But Not Fast Enough - Inside Climate News by darth_nadoma
Tax carbon and return the money to households as an equitable dividend.
There's already a group working on this and it's grown to over 200,000 in the last few years. Having more volunteers does help.
The Gini coefficient for carbon is higher than the Gini coefficient for income, so the cost of a carbon tax would be borne mostly by the rich, and the poor would mostly come out ahead with an equitable dividend.
That would surely help close the gap in rooftop solar faster than the status quo.
ILikeNeurons t1_isyddxs wrote
Reply to Australia can Slash Emissions 81% by 2030 using six Existing Technologies by DisasterousGiraffe
...and a carbon tax would make them economically competitive.
ILikeNeurons t1_iw2op34 wrote
Reply to comment by AKLmfreak in Rooftop Solar Is Becoming More Accessible to People with Lower Incomes, But Not Fast Enough - Inside Climate News by darth_nadoma
To be fair, the article is talking about the policies that would be needed to make rooftop solar accessible to everyone.
Personally, I wish they would've spent more time talking about how we need to correct the market failure.