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I like the idea of just cutting services to countries participating in the Gorescam. Help them return to the low carbon lifestyle they seem to crave. Don't sell them washing machines until they start hollering about beating their clothes with rocks.
This will be a boon for those countries surrounding the EU. As long as they have some kind of rail or shipping routes to the EU that can handle those unwilling to pay the tariffs this will impose.Half the reason why the many rail systems world wide were dismantled is because it's far easier and faster to ship by air than by rail. It also pollutes a hell of a lot less. Effectively they're either stiffling their market through increasing price of transmission, or their going to double their shipping based pollutant output.
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