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Originally Posted by Mathgod
One thing about your post genuinely confuses me. You say carbon tax is bad because you'd rather have the extra money to buy more stuff. But then you talk badly about the extra stuff you supposedly want to buy, saying it produces more carbon and toxic substances. So your anti-carbon-tax argument isn't making a lot of sense here.
I agree that nuclear will have to be a big part of the answer to climate change. The problem though is that nuclear plants can take a long time to build and get up and running, time we don't necessarily have.
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Buy more stuff like food, which is getting ever more expensive (also in part to carbon taxes) mortgages and rent in the middle of a housing crisis, clothing, things you need to live.
Not cheap junk that western society has become infatuated with.