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[โ€“] potatar@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Put a high upper limit only. Don't touch the bottomline.

For example, no more than 4 cars per person: Average Joe won't even know this rule exists but it will still reduce mineral mining due to people who collect cars.

Possible problems with my shitty example: Now a car is a controlled substance. Who decides the limit and how? What if there is a mental disease (with a better example this would make more sense) which requires a person to have 20 cars?

[โ€“] Zehzin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I believe that's called Clarkson's Disease and mostly affects lovable assholes.

I think a better solution is to give everyone less reasons to need and use cars, that a ban becomes unnecessary. But if we're putting limits on things to reduce their consumption, that's what excise taxes are for, most places already do it for fuel.

And of course there could always be taxation relative to a person or company's environmental impact. People get angry at this one.