First thing, looked at the conference and considering making the trip based on a couple things. But wanted to double check something.

You said:

(Look for our name on the registration page to get a $25 discount on your tickets.)

When I did that the "More Info" button below your name says:

Tickets for @steembasicincome only.

I'm assuming the ticket is good for the entire event and this is just a tracking method to know who brought in how many people. Great and I'm all for that, but that wording makes it sound like you don't get access to everything. Please clear that up.

With business out of the way, onto your post.

The concept of taxing carbon usage would be great! If a large enough tax was placed on carbon usage we would see a real change in peoples daily routines which would benefit the planet and remove profits from Big Oil.

Then to use this as a base living income in the form of a debit card issued to citizens of any given country which this is collected. As I don't see the World agreeing on this it would have to be a Country by Country change sadly.

That issue creates a unfair trade issues which would need to be addressed. As these taxes would be collected on local business and not imported goods if say China refused to implement the tax (which they never will).

At that point you would need to implement added Carbon Import Impact Taxes. These taxes on imported good would then be added to the Basic Income pool. The incoming tax should also income the amount of Carbon used to transport these goods across the world.

Just maybe at this point people would start to change habits to buying local as the carbon tax would be lower and make these goods more attractive.