The economists all know that it is a balancing game. To balance a viable world economy based on continuous growth vs a reduction in fossil fuel consumption. The required changes to our economic system are so big, they are unfathomable.
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Somehow even the concept of separate nations on our shared planet must go away in order to implement a carbon tax right when it comes out of the ground to put a true price on it's head. But the world economy would irrevocably crash and require the repatriation and redistribution of hidden wealth. There must also unfortunately be a new idealogical crusade against any doctrines that do not accept science and that promote positive population growth. Poor families with seven kids are making their own problems and the Scientists are being steadily outnumbered.
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