10/19/10
We don’t do anything about carbon emissions because we have no real motivation to do so. What’s wrong with Jim Hansen’s plan of a carbon tax whose money goes back to the people? We could also put it toward universal medical care. (It amounts to the same thing.)
Say, $100 a ton, from oil and coal companies directly into our pockets.
Climate change isn’t going to be an apocalyptic event out of a film but a slow moving catastrophe.
But we may regret every wrong move we make from now on.
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I'm all for a carbon tax.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that it is quite accurate to say that the money will go directly from the oil and coal companies into our pockets, though. They will pass the tax on to their customers, as they should, and the money will go from the biggest users of energy to the most frugal, through the energy companies and the feds.