Tabatha Southey: I encourage you to read a new concise report about carbon pricing myths. But in order for it to be most useful, I’ve taken some liberties.
This week, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission released a new report, “Ten Myths about Carbon Pricing in Canada,” because, in the words’ of Dale Beugin, the commission’s executive director, “It’s time to cut through the noise on carbon pricing and move to a better, more honest, evidence-driven conversation.”
No wonder those who reject the idea that climate change is both happening and caused by human activity, and that’s a third of us, seem to dominate the narrative. No one ever said, “Talk co-ordinating approaches to climate policy in every jurisdiction across the country to me” and the noise climate scientists are trying to be heard over, is anger, fear and conspiracy theories. Those elements will always make for a better-rated drama, and ratings, via algorithms, often determine what news we read.
Myth #2: Only very high carbon prices are effective. “People are never going to change just to save a few bucks,” cries everyone who has never listened to their parents gleefully explain how they travel 45 minutes out of their way to save a whole half-cent on each litre of gas they buy. The nature of the work we do has always changed. There are so few sundial polishers about these days but someone needs to repair your phone screen when you crack it using your all-purpose audio/visual communication, entertainment and information retrieval device as a flashlight to help dig your keys out from beneath the couch.
The bottom line is, time is running out. Canada made commitments about what to do about the fact that time is running out and now the time is running out on those commitments. The government is holding the hot potato that is our increasingly overheated Earth, and there’s nobody to pass it to. Every nation already has a potato of its own. The root vegetable stops here.
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