Is the carbon tax an easy scapegoat for high food prices?
Is the carbon tax an easy scapegoat for high food prices?
Climate catastrophe is on the way and we're arguing about what's causing it. Instead of dealing with it, corporations are instead positioning themselves to make more profits. Climate change will make growing food more difficult and as the conditions worsen, everything else will become progressively worse along with it.
I'm not worried about what's causing it anymore ... I already know it's human behaviour
What worries me the most is ... human behaviour
I'm not worried about what's causing it anymore ... I already know it's human behaviour
What worries me the most is ... human behaviour
This is why I've started pushing back on those who criticize me for my attention to the "small" things. Those small things are founded in the same ideologies and cognitive and statistical failures that lie behind the big problems.
Everything we can do to fix the small things at their source will take us a step closer to fixing the big things. Short of some dictator taking over and forcing us to do what's necessary, our best line of attack is on the underlying ideas and behaviours.
That is also why I tend to doomerism. What we have now is the result of 60 or more years of concerted effort, with Reagan and Thatcher representing the ideological tipping point. We now have 50 years of those ideologies becoming so entrenched that everyone just takes them as objective fact. That means that only variations on the theme are generally accepted as legitimate areas of discussion.
It certainly feels like the conservatives have latched onto the carbon tax as something they can say will fix a problem, knowing full well it will not. But it's easy to yell about, and anger works better then understanding 😞
The carbon tax is the least-worst vehicle for changing our decisions while still blunting its own effect on the people with the least choice -- the poorest of us. By the math, most of us simply don't make enough to actually feel the effects of carbon tax.
Keep that in mind as people who do make enough to feel the effects want you to vote in order that they don't.
The idea that our 'trickle-down' opposition is against any vehicle that will force their leadership to pay their due and support other people - gasp - even if it's a well-proved cost-saving measure through consolidation, a reverse monopoly and the smoothing of expenses for the rest of us; well, that's just their m-o for decades. "Fiscal responsibility" boils down to "fuck the poors and tell them it's for their own good"
IF corporate-profits are soaring as a result of jacking margins, & therefore prices, THEN all other factors are machiavellian misdirection.
Always look at the bottom-line, to understand what's going-on with for-profit psychopaths
( for-profit-corporations are psychopaths, as are the "charities" which really exist for the wallowing-wealth of the executives/administrators, in the "poverty industry". IF a person says they're running west, but you discover they're actually moving east, then their claim is false as the evidence declares. ).
Then, once you've seen the bottom-line, and how it contradicts the false-speech, then begin looking at where the money's going...
For anybody looking into accounting, please get the "Financial Shenanigans" book, current edition, as it'll help break the disinformation that criminals put into financial-statements.
It is beyond me, but I don't need to understand accounting, yet.
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, eh?
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For-profit psychopath is a great term 😎