Earth: AQMP
Air Quality Management Planet
In 1990 I worked for South Coast Air Quality Management District in El Monte, CA. The way you manage the air is to assign values to certain kinds of pollutants and then assign businesses that produce those pollutants annual allocations for a certain fee. Then people who produce less of a substance can sell credits to people who produce more than their allocation. People who refuse to pay can be fined and shut down. So depending on how much money you have you can buy enough credits to pollute as much as you want. Now I am oversimplifying here but air quality management for the planet is going to work in much the same way. It’s just like the tags for extra bags of garbage that won’t fit into the can. I am not looking forward to this carbon tax. But since they haven’t managed to get me with the toll roads I guess this is how I’ll have to pay.
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