It’s great to say these things and to hear someone say it. But also I wonder what the expectation is when you tell this to a fossil fuel company. Do you expect the CEOs to make a moral faceturn and close down their company entirely? Because that is in the end what we need. For fossil fuels not to go down, not for some trees to be planted to make up for carbon emissions, not a tax, but for them to literally not exist. And I don’t see how this will work with a free market and some guilty conscience. How this would work without a ruling and strong governments closing them down entirely.
Carbon tax is actually the best way to gradually get rid of fossil fuels without setting the whole economy on fire. That is why it is resisted and lobbied against far more than any other measure, such as electric car subsidies and why it probably will never happen.
It’s great to say these things and to hear someone say it. But also I wonder what the expectation is when you tell this to a fossil fuel company. Do you expect the CEOs to make a moral faceturn and close down their company entirely? Because that is in the end what we need. For fossil fuels not to go down, not for some trees to be planted to make up for carbon emissions, not a tax, but for them to literally not exist. And I don’t see how this will work with a free market and some guilty conscience. How this would work without a ruling and strong governments closing them down entirely.
Carbon tax is actually the best way to gradually get rid of fossil fuels without setting the whole economy on fire. That is why it is resisted and lobbied against far more than any other measure, such as electric car subsidies and why it probably will never happen.
Don’t try and tell the cpc that… along with a frightening amount of Canadians.