If We’ve Lost the Climate War, What’s Plan B? | The Tyee
If We’ve Lost the Climate War, What’s Plan B? | The Tyee
Why a carbon tax won’t save us, and what’s next.
Plan B?
I knew this would happen. I'm still just following plan A.
Basically I renounced the idea of having kids, I prioritize my life over my work and try to live my life to its fullest, and help anyone I can along the way and just hang on until the end of the world.
prioritize my life over my work
And holy shit do I get shamed for it.
Don't you care about the company or moving up in the organization?
Fuck no. I care about paying off my insane mortgage, keeping the lights on and having time to do what the fuck I want.
lol exactly.
I want to show up, do work, get paid, be left alone.
I’ll do really good work, and take pride it in because that’s just who I am, but I don’t want to do overtime, I don’t want to go above and beyond for the company, I don’t want to play office politics, I don’t want to jockey for higher roles. None of it.
Show up, get paid.
I just wanna get paid enough that I can travel the world from time to time. Get to live a little before I turn 60 with a butt load of health problems. And I only got 20 years left before that happens. The last 20 years I spent mostly struggling to survive until I got comfortable enough.
We're not following the plan because everyone else isn't.
They're not because we aren't. See how that works?
How about we do the right thing because it's the right thing?
I've always said that... Canadians are HUGE CO2 emitters, simply because of our geography and climate. We need to put in place a carbon tax that is low, but applies to damn near everything. People who consume more pay more. Invest the tax revenue in things that minimize CO2 emissions - public transit, home efficiency retrofits, subsidized higher standards for building codes, etc. Every year the carbon tax goes up, and every year the benefits get expanded.
I'm not a fucking genius, why can't anyone else do this?
Because doing the right thing will cause someone with an obscene amount of money to not get quite as much more.
Death by attrition
waiting for the BBQ of the Billionaires to start.
Plan B is that you will be a potential food source for the worlds 2500 billionaires in bunkers.
The article does not justify why a carbon tax would not work, or at least be an important part of the solution. If we are missing our current targets, what measures can we take to do better? For example, how would increasing the carbon tax by 50% affect our emissions? Despair doesn't get us closer to our goals.
The easiest example as to why the carbon tax is stupid:
The carbon tax was introduced in BC under Gordon Campbell's hyper conservative and extreme pro oil government.If it was ever going to accomplish anything other than looking good and giving the oil and gas industry a tax break, they wouldn't have done it.
The concept of a carbon tax isn't forcing oil and gas companies to do immediate things, it's just them paying the logging industry to plant some trees in a place that was already logged and was going to be replaced and logged again in the future.
There are multiple different ways to tax carbon. The current federal carbon tax does not include rebates for planting trees, so that loophole doesn't exist.
I think Zizek is saying something similar in his last book. It's not about averting catastrophe any more. The catastrophe already happened. We are already in the post-apocalyptic scenario.
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