Events in Puerto Rico should make us reflect on what it would be like… with only electric cars

https://www.vox.com/2017/10/23/16501164/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-power-water-sewage-trump

"Rivera stops his pickup truck next to one of the turbines, clambers up a metallic staircase, takes the padlock off a small door, and steps inside the towering structure"

"Puerto Rico Power Authority workers repair power lines in Loíza"

Solutions that share out all benefits equally among all are the best, but sadly these are of no interest to solution profiteers

Let us suppose a hefty carbon and gas tax was levied and all its revenues distributed equally among all citizens... like helping to fund a Universal Basic Income

Something along the lines of Climate Leadership Council's proposed Carbon Dividends

Would that help the environment? Of course it would!

Would that help to reduce inequalities? Of course it would!

Such ideas have been proposed but why do they not get sufficient social traction?

The climate-change-fight profiteers, those so abundant in the frontlines of all environmental concerns, do not find that to be in their best interests.

The redistribution profiteers, those so abundant in the frontlines of all social concerns, and the political power grabbers, do not find that to be in their best interest.

Tell me, what do we do? A revenue neutral carbon tax is surely more important for the health of our planet than a couple of quite wishy washy populist Paris agreements, which end up being just great photo-ops for political profiteering.

PS. This is what I in FT proposed for Mexico

@PerKurowski