Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

>> Like a 500%-5000% sale tax on all non-service related transactions?
>> :-(
> 
> I would rather go for a requirement 'no-envionmental-changes'
> requirement for all activities, with very heavy fees for exceptions.

Rather than "fees for exceptions" I'd call that "charge for resource use".
Most resource usage gets charged only by what it costs to make the
resources available (plus profit). The resource users don't pay at all (to
the community) for the fact that they are actually reducing common assets.
This is treated as if these common assets were infinite -- which we long
know they aren't.

Gerhard

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