Carbon tax here in Canada has turned into a lightning rod for the populist right, spreading misinformation about it and using it is as a lever to take power (th

Carbon tax here in Canada has turned into a lightning rod for the populist right, spreading misinformation about it and using it is as a lever to take power (they will soon) and govern on behalf of the fossil fuel sector. I think you'll find globally that the few carbon taxes in existence are going to go away, not more be enacted. I wish I had more optimism here. For a brief window some years ago my anti-capitalist impulses were put in check and I thought maybe neo-Keynesian liberals could lead us out of this, as they promised, and that gov't policy combined with the natural market forces emerging from the renewable energy sector would gradually taper emissions off. Unfortunately, nope. The sad irony is that a carbon tax is the most modest, conservative-friendly, marketish-based policy. But the right just can't resist turning opposition to it into a trampoline into power. And the fossil fuel industry is going to go down alright, but it's planning on taking us all with it.