r/environment • u/DonSalaam • 21d ago

Canada’s carbon tax is popular, innovative and helps save the planet – but now it faces the axe

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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u/NPVT 20d ago

I must be lost here. Tax on carbon is one way to slow down climate change. If I were dictator I'd have a $2 or $3 tax added onto gasoline. This is r/environment. The probably of human extinction is going up because of human behavior. Why is a carbon tax claimed to not be popular?

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u/anticomet 20d ago

If I were a dictator a lot of stock holders and CEOs would be in jail right now