Labor unions successfully pressured the French government to roll back Paris’ carbon tax.
The French capital’s carbon tax, which has been in place since April, was intended to shut the last coal power plants down “by 2023 at the latest.” France’s environmental ministry is already attempting to get the European Union to re-institute a broader carbon tax.
France’s General Confederation of Labour (CGT) union opposes a carbon tax because it would shut down several coal power plants in Paris operated by its members. CGT organized several protests against the tax and had several politicians who were former members oppose it. The tax has already been removed from the country’s budget next year.
Only four nations — Ireland, Sweden, Chile, and Finland — actually have total carbon taxation today. The largest economy to ever have a carbon tax, Australia, repealed it in 2014 over concerns it was harming the economy. No country taxes CO2 emissions at the levels deemed necessary to substantially mitigate global warming as defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The study found that even the most well regarded carbon taxes haven’t done much to actually reduce CO2 emissions.
Researchers have found that carbon taxes cause considerably more economic damage than generic taxes do and disproportionately target the poor as even revenue-neutral carbon taxes reduce economic growth while doing little to fix global warming.
The amount spent globally to meet global CO2 emissions reduction goals could be as high as $16.5 trillion between now and 2030, when energy efficiency measures are included, according to projections from the International Energy Agency. To put these numbers in perspective, the U.S. government is just over $19 trillion in debt and only produced $17.4 trillion in gross domestic product in 2014.
This article originally appeared in The Daily Caller
Good decision, I trust they understand the arguments.
There are reasonable people in Paris after all.
Carbon and Life
What makes carbon so special is that every carbon atom is eager to bond with as many as four other atoms. This makes it possible for long chains and rings to be formed out of them, together with other atoms – almost always hydrogen, often oxygen, sometimes nitrogen, sulfur or halides. The study of these is the basis of organic chemistry; the compounds carbon forms with metals are generally considered inorganic. Chains and rings are fundamental to the way carbon-based life forms – that is, all known life-forms – build themselves.
Carbon Cycle and Life
Carbon is a fundamental building block of life; life on Earth is comprised of carbon-based life forms.
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/478.html
Well put, our best filters, Carbon Fibre’s as used in the Boing Dreamliner, Super Capacitors are all cutting edge, and then we need toner cartridges and the common pencil.
Yep, water filtration is a widely accepted use of carbon as well for a millennial. Just do let the government indoctrinated know.
Carbon is a substance that has a long history of being used to absorb impurities and is perhaps the most powerful absorbent known to man. One pound of carbon contains a surface area of roughly 125 acres and can absorb literally thousands of different chemicals. Activated carbon is carbon which has a slight electro-positive charge added to it, making it even more attractive to chemicals and impurities.
The limousine left always tries to equate CO2 with carbon particulates.
i.e.: the ‘carbon footprint’ canard