The U.S government wants to crack down on the ballooning energy consumption of Bitcoin miners.
  • Chocrates@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    11 months ago

    Any suggestions on how we can actually make corporations pay for the carbon they emit if a carbon tax isn’t it?
    Doing nothing is what we have been doing and it isn’t working.

      • Jojo@lemm.eeEnglish
        31·
        11 months ago

        How would you implement that? Like, how do you propose to impose a tax on the company that they can’t just pass along to the customer?

          • Jojo@lemm.eeEnglish
            11·
            11 months ago

            How would that law work? Unless you’re setting the price as a matter of law, how could you ever prove that a price rise was because of the tax and not “other economic factors”?