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Originally Posted by YOWetal
This isn't social engineering. It's more like a sin tax. I mostly disagree we should or could pay the cost to bring our emissions to zero but that is a different debate. If the most important policy consideration in Canada is to get to zero emissions as fast as possible of course a carbon tax is one of the best ways to get there. It will be closer to $800/tonne though and knock our standard of living back to Argentina's. Even if our getting to zero solved the problem I think it's clearly not worth that. Given that our contribution is all but irrelevant it surely is pointless virtue signaling.
Nobody in the mainstream left or right wants to hear that though. Centre Left wants to imagine it's win win and recycling and low flow shower head is all the sacrifice needed. and Centre right imagines it can be done without taxes by someone else changing their lifestyle with a few incentives. Far left is happy to destroy capitalism to fix the problem and right doesn't believe or I think more commonly doesn't care.
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Nobody on any part of the political spectrum who has any sort of intelligence thinks that recycling or low flower shower heads have anything to do with emissions. You have to be
pretty dumb to think that low flow anything creates greenhouse gas.
Some of the far left would be happy to destroy capitalism anyway - if it lowered greenhouse gas emissions that's just a bonus. Unfortunately, without significant regulation and financial prodding, much of capitalism will quite happily continue poisoning, polluting and emiting. Some
have already decided they don't really care whether they promised to change their ways. And of course,
they own some politicians so they can carry on with business as usual.
Even the ones who they don't own outright are willing to help by buying pipelines and propping up industries that help to continue burning stuff - even though burning stuff is what is creating the methane and CO2 that's changing the climate.