2022-05-02 03:14:06
1/ Prior to and during the pandemic, climate change was reframed from an environmental issue to a public health issue. Soon it may be declared a public health crisis. Imagine a few years hence you receive the following text on your phone:
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2/ A notification explains that your carbon footprint is 23% above others in your age/race category in your geographic region. It informs you that you have eighteen months to transition to an electric vehicle; otherwise, you will be taxed an additional $0.90 per gallon of gas.
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3/ While that gas tax is steep, you default to that “option” because you cannot afford an electric vehicle. After another six months, you receive another notification that your individualized carbon footprint tax will double to $1.80 per gallon of gas...
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4/ ...which hurts even more but does not change your financial prospects for a new electric car. A year later, an algorithm in the cloud decides that, since you have still not converted to an electric vehicle, you now simply cannot buy gas.
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5/ The biomedical security state will soon have the infrastructure in place for policies of this kind, including digital IDs and central bank digital currencies. These will be tied to digital health passport systems already tested and deployed during the pandemic.
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