this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2023
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This is just a "feel bad" story rather than an actionable policy suggestion since, as the author acknowledges, regulating these yachts is going to be rather difficult because they can just sail somewhere else. Plenty of countries will welcome them in return for the economic activity associated with being a haven for the super-rich.
let them sail somewhere else then
without rich people
If the yachts already exist anyway and so the carbon footprint will be the same, it seems better for them to exist here where they put a lot of money into the local economy rather than somewhere else. I suppose that has to be weighted against the potential to discourage future yacht construction...
Let em put their money into the local economies of somalia when first world ports no longer welcome them.
I've wondered about that. Ireland, Delaware, and Bermuda are all notorious tax havens, but are any of them actually any better off than they would be otherwise? I get the feeling that the benefits are going to a very select handful of people, and not, uh, trickling down.
Could regulate the manufacturing and maintenance/repairs.
Or deregulate the torpedo industry
They can't sail somewhere else if you sink them.