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Dave
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Personally I think its a crock of shit but hey, lets see who's for it.
We need a new poll me thinks.
We need a new poll me thinks.
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It is incumbent on rich nations to clean up their act first - to lead the way. A carbon tax (or any other price on pollution) in Australia shows the world (i.e. China, India) the path to take, provides a workable model and gives them license to follow. Without a tax (or price) in rich nations why would developing nations clean up their economies?
A carbon tax may well become a consumption tax. If you don't want to pay more tax, use less stuff. For the most part, those that say we can't afford to take action against pollution suffer from affluenza - confusing wants with needs.
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If you think China or India will follow us because we will save a piss in the ocean worth of carbon, your kidding yourself. These types of countries will never give a shit. They will however, be mighty happy when they start getting more work from us due to the costs being to high in Australia, ie/ manufacturing.
I still believe it will not make a difference. The way to reduce pollution is reduce the worlds population. Australia pollutes much less than most countries and carbon tax needs to be aimed at them.
But if every company went and did that, China would hardly notice (as populations go, Australia is a small country) but we'd have 50% or more unemployment. I really can't see it happening.
Our contributions to global CO2 emissions are highest per capita in industrialised world
Mars A-Tax?
Wasn't a bad movie.