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Letter: Social engineering to change travel and diet (2)

Published 8 May 2019

From Eric Kvaalen,Les Essarts-le-Roi, France

Vaughan suggests caps on personal travel to reduce carbon emissions. But if capped travel could be traded, a rich person could buy travel from poorer people who were happy to accept a market price for it. This would be equivalent to a fuel tax that raised the cost to that price and whose proceeds were distributed evenly. A tax would make everybody happier than the cap method.

Issue no. 3229 published 11 May 2019

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