Climate change strategy.?

Question

Will the 'tax 'em to death' stategy to prevent climate change save us from extinction..?

Answer 1

what strategy? we are paying less tax now than 10 years ago.

concerned, we are in the u.k. we now pay less direct tax than we did overall, and in particular 'green' taxes have reduced, not that there were many in the first place.

packaging tax is paid by producers. landfill tax is paid by companies and some local councils that havnt got their acts together, and has increased, but the amount of rubbish sent to landfill has reduced.

  road tax has gone up but that is not a green tax and the proceeds go partly to maintaining the network and the rest goes to buy bombs schools etc. similarly fuel tax, it has always been high and getting higher, and has never been a green tax, it is used to prevent the economy overheating, and of course, to provide revenue.

Answer 2

It won't prevent climate change as we have no influence on solar activity (the true cause of this little warming trend).  It won't prevent our extinction either, as we are in fact growing in number...not dwindling.  We're simply seeing the beginning of the next Age of Man:  The Second Dark Ages, thanks to the slow, strangled death of capitalism and personal property rights.

Answer 3

ARE YOU MAD?!

Answer 4

Nothing good has ever come from taxing the people. Taxing carbon emissions will destroy our economy. It has already had negative effects in all the countries who have tried it. They are understanding the stupidity and are starting to back off.

Answer 5

The rich get richer and continue to bugger the place up, and the poor get poorer and are pushed over the brink causing huge anarchy and world wide revolutions. Sound like a happy place?  

Answer 6

What "tax 'em to death" strategy?  You people keep ranting about that, but I haven't heard a single politician even suggest raising taxes as a solution to climate change.  Yes, the cost of living has gone up because gas is more expensive, but that has nothing to do with taxes.  You've been spending way to much time listening to Rush Limbaugh, who's so strung out on Oxycontin he wouldn't recognize reality if he saw it.

littlerobbergirl, you're mistaken too.  Unless you're one of those filthy rich corporate types the Republicans love to subsidize, our taxes are the same as they were ten years ago.

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I'm in the US, not the UK, but let me get this straight.  You're being charged for trash pickup to encourage you to recycle, so all you have to do is recycle more to pay less, and you'd rather pay the taxes and complain than recycle?  Is that about the size of it?  I've met people here with that attitude and I find it hard to sympathize.

Answer 7

For years we have been taxed on acount of global warming, Now we are being told it's really global COOLING and in the next couple of generations temperatures will plummet to mini ice ages. Do they really know ? Surely temperatures have gone in cycles for millions of years and will continue to do so, To use changes as an excuse to bump up taxes is just another way to raise tax revenue.

Answer 8

no, just make us poor and then we will have to build camp fires to keep us warm, and that releases CO2.

Answer 9

Sadly I think it's the only thing that's going to work in the long run. Unless renewable sources of energy get a preferential treatment people won't invest in them/use them, most are just not able to pull their heads out of the sand and see the inevitable consequences of their behaviour.

By the way, camp fires are carbon-neutral; if you feed them with timber they will only release the CO2 the tree absorbed out of the atmosphere in the first place.

Answer 10

NO!, it'll just save the rich pigs, the rest of us will just starve to death!.

It's capitalism and the free market that's raping the planet, not climate change which is a natural phenomenon caused by the good old Sun!.