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Originally Posted by Hackey
The carbon tax is a joke. It doesn't work. No one is changing the way they live because of it. No tax money is making any impact on global climate change. Even if Canada produced zero emissions it wouldn't matter on a global scale. So were hurting our people now while helping literally no one in the future.
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There is so much wrong with this statement (especially the bolded). This is why teaching critical thinking in school is A) my number one goal; and B) should be the goal of every education system.
10 year-olds in classrooms blow an Alberta oil field-sized hole through this specious argument on a regular basis.
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"For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable." - Carl Sagan
Freedom consonant with responsibility.
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