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    Kanadas CO2-Steuer ist beliebt, innovativ und hilft, den Planeten zu retten – aber jetzt steht sie vor der Katastrophe


    Kanadas CO2-Steuer ist beliebt, innovativ und hilft, den Planeten zu retten – aber jetzt steht sie vor der Katastrophe

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/05/canadas-carbon-tax-is-popular-innovative-and-helps-save-the-planet-but-now-it-faces-the-axe

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    1. radiomonkey21 on

      Conservative governments the world over have discovered there is no downside to lying repeatedly and loudly if it serves your ideological purpose. Here in Canada, the carbon tax is emblematic of that fact. It will not survive the next election.

    4. PeregrineThe on

      People want to fix the environment. Unfortunately, housing, healthcare, and other essentials are top priority right now. Paying extra for necessities while also spending billons on pipelines and O&G subsidies mskes the whole effort feel worthless

    5. Proof_Objective_5704 on

      Thing is, the carbon tax is not popular. It’s one of the main platform issues of the next election.

      If it was popular, the Liberals wouldn’t have removed it for parts of Atlantic Canada.

      I have not once read an article from The Guardian about Canada that was in touch with reality.

    6. Technicho on

      According to this paper in Journal of Economics, carbon taxes reduce productivity:

      https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272721001961#:~:text=On%20average%2C%20the%20carbon%20tax,loss%20in%20productivity%20by%201%25.

      The effect is even more pronounced for countries whose main industry is resource extraction, and less so for countries with other industries that lessen its impact.

      It’s really silly to be ruining our economy and living standards, when Canada isn’t even the top 10 in emissions and has a global emission contribution less than 3%. India and China will be raising their living standards on extremely carbon intensive methods, while Canadians are reducing ours for nothing.

    7. Impressive_East_4187 on

      Who is it popular with? Literally nobody likes the carbon tax which is why even the NDP are in favour of scrapping it.

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