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The obvious solution is a carbon tax, but you'll be called a right wing nut job if you promote that.
by merpnderp 4y ago
The obvious solution is a carbon tax, but you'll be called a right wing nut job if you promote that.
- fknorangesite 4y agoFunny; in Canada, supporting the carbon tax gets you called a left wing nutjob.
- mofreelumch 4y agoA lot of people in tge US don't really understand the political views they are espousing, or the histories surrounding those politics, nor do most americans have even the slightest understanding of the political process within their own country. You can forget about the vast majority of US commenters (even here on hacker news) having any knowledge of socialist/communist theory. I'd imagine that the initial commenter is actually unaware of left/right positions or their implications. (I could be quite wrong, but this seems to be the only sensible explanation for the GP)
- anticensor 4y agoBecause the US is out of the compass right wing when compared to any other country.
- wlesieutre 4y agoRight wing nut jobs are the most strongly opposed people to a carbon tax that I've ever met. At least in the US you're much more likely to be called a socialist. You'd think the political right would be for a market solution to global warming, but first they would have to concede that global warming exists, so they won't.
- gs17 4y ago> You'd think the political right would be for a market solution to global warming My experience is that they take "carbon tax" as only the literal interpretation and opposition to taxes and bureaucracy outweigh everything else, there's hardly a "market solution" in it. Fee and dividend should be more popular, but it gets ignored and eventually won't be enough.
- fknorangesite 4y ago> My experience is that they take "carbon tax" as only the literal interpretation and opposition to taxes and bureaucracy outweigh everything else, Yeah, and in Canada it's extra frustrating since it is a fee-and-dividend system, not a tax - but the Conservatives love to call it "carbon tax" in order to score easier political points. But like GP said: > first they would have to concede that global warming exists, so they won't.
- wlesieutre 4y agoAh you're right, I was thinking of cap and trade as the market solution, but they won't do that either for the same climate change denial reasons.