laverabe@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoOpinion | Why Don’t We Just Ban Fossil Fuels?www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1129arrow-down122
arrow-up1107arrow-down1external-linkOpinion | Why Don’t We Just Ban Fossil Fuels?www.nytimes.comlaverabe@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square46fedilink
minus-squarePizza_Rat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·9 months agoIt can, and will, get worse. A carbon tax is a specific, simple, policy that voters could form a broad coalition around to implement.
minus-squareSuspiciousbrowsing@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up10·9 months agoYou’d think that… it sunk the Australian government when they tried to implement it 10-15 yrs ago
minus-squareLiz@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoCanada has one, though it’s not particularly aggressive, as far as I can tell. They redistribute the tax money so no one actually pays extra over the full year, but high carbon products are still more expensive. https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2024/02/canada-carbon-rebate-amounts-for-2024-25.html I have no idea how the tax is calculated.
It can, and will, get worse.
A carbon tax is a specific, simple, policy that voters could form a broad coalition around to implement.
You’d think that… it sunk the Australian government when they tried to implement it 10-15 yrs ago
Canada has one, though it’s not particularly aggressive, as far as I can tell. They redistribute the tax money so no one actually pays extra over the full year, but high carbon products are still more expensive.
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2024/02/canada-carbon-rebate-amounts-for-2024-25.html
I have no idea how the tax is calculated.