Tax Global Warming - spread a simple concept

Let science set global warming policy

This is important.   Taxing is a powerful way to deal with things we don't like.   We do not like Global Warming.   So tax it.  Any kind of taxing will do. Top US economist says Carbon tax best way to slow global warming or even the Fee/Rebate system seems quite worthy.
It should cost money for us to continue warming the planet.   255 Economists say we should Tax Carbon Pollution.

"Saving civilization means restructuring taxes to get the market to tell the ecological truth." Lester Brown Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

Dr James Hansen of Columbia Univ. and formerly of NASA proposes "Carbon Tax with a 100% Dividend"

Tax and 100% dividend can drive innovation and economic growth with a snowballing effect. Carbon emissions will plummet far faster than in top-down or Manhattan projects. A clean environment that supports all life on the planet can be restored...

It can be a corporate tax incentive for research, a tax abatement for new business, a sales tax on high carbon goods or services or even a value-added tax on commerce.   Or a tax on any kind of stupid consumption.  Governments should consider anything - but just Tax Global Warming. Now. Spread the word. Check the Carbon Tax Center.

Cap and Trade is no substitution for Carbon Tax.   Cap and Trade just amplifies "Business as Usual" and does little to affect global warming

The single most important policy that could be implemented would be a carbon tax ..."so that those who don't pay the price for carbon don't have an advantage over those who do." - Al Gore   Jan, 2008
Right now many legislators are trying to work out a cumbersome, "Cap-and-Trade" policy to limit CO2. This idea is difficult to setup, hard to police and costly to fund a market. Until it gets working, taxing global warming will swiftly and effectivly limit CO2, and motivate industry to change.

Government councils can figure out how to best remove the barriers to efficiency and reform and restructure taxes.   Because every community, every state and nation will have a different solution.   But they should just Tax Global Warming.   That is their job - to help citizens meet the future.  They know how to write tax code.   Just Tax Global Warming.

This is not a political stance.   This is not a message from Republicans or Democrats or Independents.  It is an appeal to stop the destruction of our planet by taxing it severely.   Tax Global Warming.   Ask your government to be stewards to your future.  Until we all escape from taxes, then just: Tax Global Warming - now.  Something is broken and we want it fixed. 

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Restructure the tax system.   There may be no need to ADD taxes, but restructuring is a smart and urgent idea supported by economists.  Discuss the idea with others, talk about it at church, in schools, in your community.  Help spread this idea, send emails, print posters...let's get moving.  

    Emissions trading is such an unutterably bogus concept that we should toss it on the slagheap right off the bat.  It is a shell game that allows corporations to buy the right to pollute.   Futility of carbon trading is obvious from the fact that it is the one climate change amelioration scheme that is agreeable to both politicians and industrialists.  Example: an undeveloped nation with a lot of trees and a utility in say Dallas, Texas – the utility blithely belches out massive amounts of pollution from coal-fired power plants, buying the right to pollute from the poor tree-filled nation.  Naturally the utility customers both foot the bill and reap the dire consequences.  Carbon trading is little more than an unconscionable scam to further fossil fuel business as usual, not any sort of real solution.
    -- Dr. James E. Hansen, Columbia University   http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/20080804_TripReport.pdf

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