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It's nice how you can rename any tax to an "eco tax" and suddenly everyone's delighted. Kudos for the social engineering. (there is absolutely no indication th
by buboard 7y ago
It's nice how you can rename any tax to an "eco tax" and suddenly everyone's delighted. Kudos for the social engineering.
(there is absolutely no indication that this will somehow help the environment. I 'm heavily against flying , but i m also appalled by the level of gullibility here)
- mamon 7y agoEcology is a new religion, except instead of Apocalypse they have Global Warming, and instead of sin they have "carbon footprint".
- homonculus1 7y agoAnd instead of a bible, we have evidence ;)
- mamon 7y agoNo, all we have are scientific papers. And while in theory they should be considered evidence, the current financing system basically turns climate scientists into grant-seeking whores, and the results of research are determined not by facts, but by the needs of the sponsor. "Fighting" global warming is multibillion dollar business after all.
- usrusr 7y agoFacilitating global warming is a multitrillion dollar business, so that argument is kind of weak.
- la_barba 7y agoThe funds have been earmarked for more eco-friendly transport services. It would be easy to go through the budget and see what happened. News articles can only give you so much context. It would consume an entire newspaper to give the back-story of every single news article. The reader is expected to do some work on their own. Also its not some 'random' tax. France has what they call an "ecological defense council" consisting of 150 randomly chosen citizens who debate such matters with domain experts. This idea has come out of such meetings.