Carbon tax - China and India?

Question

Hey people!

I'm doing a project at school on carbon tax, and I am arguing for one to be implemented. Only problem is, I have one counter-argument to which I can find no solution at all: how would high-polluting LEDCs such as China and India cope with the tax?

This is the only flaw in my argument, and try as I might, I cannot think of a solution, nor does the library/internet provide any answers. Please help!

Many thanks

Answer 1

To Guest 7814 and 6535

We all need to get our head out of the sand.  I have been in the 'real world' for many years, paying bills, taxes, etc.  We can learn the hard way, or come to realize that the sooner we learn how to be more self-sufficient and become less reliant on $$$, the more likely we'll actually have a future.

Fact - If high hydrocarbon emmitting nations like China and India (and many others also) don't pay into a system that works to recapture the carbon to store in trees that are planted or other carbon capturing methods, none of us will have any future.  So quit living for today and start thinking for tomorrow.

The catch is that any such carbon tax money must be ensured to be used to capture carbon, not line others' wallets.  Not an easy task we know.  But if we don't at least try, then what other option is there than to watch the world continue to degrade.

We are already at the tipping point.  Its attitudes like yours that is going to put us in a situation where people are scrambling, wishing we'd done a whole lot more sooner to address the problems, while there were opportunities.