Here's an article on Vox about a carbon tax initiative in Washington: http://www.vox.com/2016/10/18/13012394/i-732-carbon-tax-washington http://www.vox.com/201

Here's an article on Vox about a carbon tax initiative in Washington: http://www.vox.com/2016/10/18/13012394/i-732-carbon-tax-washington http://www.vox.com/2016/10/18/13012394/i-732-carbon-tax-wash... It's an interesting article and is worth reading in full. But my takeaway from it is "environmentalists, and particularly wonky highly scientific environmentalists, are junior members of the liberal coalition. Their role in the liberal coalition is to follow policy and add support to it. Their coalition members are not interested in narrow environmental initiatives like a revenue-neutral carbon tax." So liberals sink modest wonky proposals like a revenue-neutral carbon tax. Conservatives sink giant omnibuses that include environmental stuff in a package with redistribution and social justice stuff. End result: no environmental legislation. I have a blog post going into more detail on the subject here: https://sandoratthezoo.wordpress.com/2016/10/19/scientific-environmentalists-are-junior-coalition-members/ https://sandoratthezoo.wordpress.com/2016/10/19/scientific-e...