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t0rt01se | 4 years ago

Screw carbon credits. Countries should be given credits based on the number of (non-human) apex predators in the wild within their borders and any carbon-intensive/polluting economic activity should have to be offset against these very expensive credits.

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jefflombardjr|4 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive#:~:text=The....

t0rt01se|4 years ago

More cobras in the wild! Result! As as aside, you'll find a cobra isn't an apex predator - a King Cobra ... now that could be considered. Every incentive humans have ever dreamed up has had perverse/unintended outcomes - what's your point?

slibhb|4 years ago

Who is going to give countries "credits"? The UN? The US? God?

FooBarBizBazz|4 years ago

It's be cool if there were some distributed game-theoretic equilibrium that could be arrived at without a "central bank" issuing credits.

t0rt01se|4 years ago

The credits get mined based on proof of existence and then can be traded. 'Given' was the wrong choice of word.

alexilliamson|4 years ago

Is this a serious question? The Lion subsidies can only come from one place (God)