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money as human worth

Money is just a token of exchange. What if a certain amount the baby tax was hypothecated to planting trees, to offset the extra CO2 that that individual would produce? You can quite literally figure out how many trees/how much land you need, get the prices and work backwards from there to arrive at a cash amount.



That's a brave little theory. There's just a tiny obstacle of forcing people in Africa, India and Middle East to comply.

(If they don't, it's no longer a plan but a play)




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