JohnDonne wrote: Thu Dec 13, 2018 6:49 pm
C-Mag wrote: Thu Dec 13, 2018 12:31 am
NYC is 500 square miles of concentrated pollutants upon layer of pollutants over 350 years.
Doesn't the total destruction of Ecosystems mean anything to you ?
Do you think you can just ignore that level of pollution and environmental destruction on a per capita number ?
I’m not the one with the big ideas, you ought to make a sensible case before advocating public policy. Why would we green tax people more, or abolish their lifestyle if their lifestyle might be more carbon efficient? And how recent does an ecosystem have to have been destroyed for it to be taxable? Should people living in downtown Manhattan now indefinitely pay for ecosystems destroyed hundreds of years ago? Doesn’t seem like you’ve thought this one through.
Actually the big ideas come from the global warming crowd, I'm just following their logic. The public policy of advocating for higher climate taxes is the policy of the globalists with things like the Kyoto and Paris Climate Accords, folks around the world have reacted like you at the idea of climate taxes targeted at them ...………. see Gilets Jaunes.
I find no honest evidence that rural folks have a larger carbon footprint than urban folks, actually just the opposite. I'm linking below a couple online carbon footprint calculators, one from the EPA.
You'll find that it's all about consumption, there is no factor for carbon storage, carbon storage the rural communities are very, very strong on. Essentially, by not calculating carbon storage as well as carbon footprint they've rigged the outcome.
Climate change policy is big on Carbon Storage, it part of all the global policies out there. Nations are able to take advantage of it to offset their carbon footprint, big corporations are able to take advantage of it to offset their carbon footprint...……………… but rural folks are not, why ?
Hastur called it correctly, it's a rigged game about money.
https://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx
https://www3.epa.gov/carbon-footprint-calculator/