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Linus Mattauch@linusmattauch.bsky.social |
Our main result:once you account for the benefits of people getting a little bit fitter, the optimal fuel tax changes by about 40%.Why only 40% and not an order of magnitude?Well, fuel price increases are of course a very indirect way of getting citizens to be a bit more active.
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Linus Mattauch
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A few lessons learnt while working on it for years: (1) Is it surprising that lack of exercise is enormously expensive compared to env. damages? Brute fact: many more preventable deaths happen in Global North from heart disease, diabetes,dementia than from env. catastrophes now.
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