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Personally, I do not support carbon taxes: they are too direct and invasive. Creating natural economical incentives is generally a more solid approach than penalizing non-abiding the desired behaviors. Rather than taxing companies for producing carbon dioxide, I would prefer to see tax exemptions to those companies that champion environment-friendly technologies. You could say that the difference is merely semantic, because the outcome is the same: those who produce carbon dioxide pay higher taxes than those who do not... It is not entirely false. However, in practice human behavior on the free market strongly differs for these two approaches, and I think that my suggestion will lead to a much softer transition towards environment-friendly technologies, than the brute force approach - which is more likely to lead to the companies falsifying data in order to stay competitive and to avoid higher taxation.
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