Not exact matches
Also, you have to see how to manage some
of the distribution and social
consequences of carbon pricing, which will mediate the actual nature
of the
price, what it's put
on, who is compensated or not over time as well.
But the upside is three-fold: (i) your tax reduction or dividend check will offset much, perhaps more than 100 %,
of those
price increases; (ii) you'll be able to minimize your tax bite by cutting down
on fuel usage (e.g., shortening those country drives, buying locally - grown produce, purchasing «green power» from wind and solar cells); and (iii) Americans» combined behavior changes in response to the
carbon tax will go a long way toward protecting the climate and averting the cataclysmic
consequences of unchecked global warming.
I am involved in a community radio program for the unemployed in Wollomngong and last November we started to discuss the fallacy
of the
carbon dioxide catastrophic glogal warming hypothesis and the catstrophic
consequences for employment in Wollongong if ever a
price was put
on carbon dioxide emissions.
Multiple lines
of scientific evidence overwhelmingly show that human greenhouse gas emissions are the dominant cause
of the current global warming, that the
consequences of that warming will
on the whole be bad, and that there are cost - effective solutions to the problem,
of which
carbon pricing systems are a critical component.