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Originally Posted by peter12
The carbon tax is good because it is essentially making oil and gas companies and consumers pay for the massive externalities of pumping carbon in the atmosphere. I know a lot of people on CP don't think that's a big deal, but actually global warming is bad and we should be disincentivised from contributing to it.
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Please.
The carbon tax in Canada is meaningless in terms of worldwide carbon emissions.
If we want to 'lower' emissions, we'd be better off switching the entire world from coal to natural gas.
But since we went ahead of missed that boat and the world is going to burn more coal and create more emissions from coal in 2023 than it has in the past decade, we'll instead implement a useless tax on the consumer and tell everyone how it is for THEIR GOOD.
