locally grown

[Jester]

Because what the developing world needs is a 50% to 100% hike in food costs to offset the artificial price of carbon added into the food supply chain (beyond the actual cost of the fuel used to grow, transport, etc.). Unless you want to exempt them, and then we can buy our grain on the black market from Mexico.

You're right, that's one of the absolutely key issues here. How do you get global emissions down in a way that is just, rather than punishing to the extremely poor who have historically polluted almost zero? Somehow, third world countries (and their inhabitants) are going to have to pay less, or even less than zero, for their carbon, until their total emissions are more in line with rich countries'. Most systems that have some kind of mechanism for alleviating this problem, but it is one of the potential stumbling blocks.

-Jester