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Carbon Rationing App (CRA)
A government-issued mobile application that tracks and enforces individual carbon footprints. Citizens receive a carbon allowance and are penalized for exceeding it through fines or restrictions on goods and services. Think of it as a digital eco-tax tracker with gamification.

Future Scenarios that inspired this product idea

Global carbon credit exchanges manipulate market prices, enabling speculative investing in the continued use of now-antiquated energy technologies promising impossibly-high market returns.
Extrapolated from Trump’s New Energy Policy Kills Electric Vehicle Credits, Paves Way for Old Lightbulbs and High-Flow Toilets - Gizmodo.com

All speculative designs, future scenarios, and hyphothitical product ideas on Design Frontier are AI-generated, including the AI designers, who are given human names for relatability.