{"id":157609,"date":"2024-07-04T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/rwddev\/?p=157609"},"modified":"2024-07-04T15:16:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T19:16:32","slug":"carbon-tax-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/carbon-tax-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The future is ours to choose, and the choices are stark: Hugh Holland | Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Hugh Holland<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Our world is at a crossroads.<strong> <\/strong>Every day now, we hear about another devastating and costly drought, heat dome, wildfire, storm surge, flood, tornado, or just miserable weather. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody, anywhere, rich or poor, will escape the ravages of climate change and the resulting mass migration of desperate people. So, we have some stark choices to make about what kind of future we want our children and their children to live in.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will we choose a future in which our tax and financial systems fail to address climate change and leave everyone in fear of violent weather, shortages, and mass migration, even the very rich living in paranoia in secured bunkers, and others living in fear unprotected from increasing poverty?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or will we choose a future in which everyone is considered human, and we use our now available knowledge and technologies to mitigate climate change, share available resources, and give everyone a fair and honest shot at a decent life?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate change is by far the biggest global and national threat, and the time to get control of it is fast shrinking. As climate change advances, extreme weather events are consuming more and more of our money, leaving less and less money for food, water, buildings, infrastructure, health care, education, and causing social unrest, clearly a losing proposition.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, climate change, with its many causes, effects, and solutions, is a complex issue that is easily manipulated by uninformed or ambitious politicians. So, if we want our governments to effectively address climate change, we voters must educate ourselves and demand results from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The salary of an MP is $203,000 compared to the average salary in Canada of $63,013. To get elected, politicians try to both REFLECT AND LEAD the opinions of their supporters, and they succeed by coming up with slick storylines. Poilievre\u2019s \u201cAxe the tax\u201d campaign is a dangerous example.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, the COVID pandemic and conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, on top of the rising costs and resulting mass migration from extreme climate events, have transformed the political debate into one of short-term economic sustainability vs. slightly longer-term climate sustainability. Short-term thinking seems to be winning, and we will all pay a big price for it in the long term.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The carbon tax is designed to motivate everyone, both producers and consumers, to mitigate climate change. It may help them get elected, but politicians are irresponsible in suggesting that the climate crisis can be totally solved by producers with no help or minor sacrifices from consumers. So, solutions take much longer, and climate impacts become more and more severe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By wrongly claiming the carbon tax doesn\u2019t work, Poilievre has managed to make it a wedge issue, even though people can use the rebate from one quarter to fund the tax for the next quarter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, there may be a few people who can\u2019t make that work, but with a little imagination, most people can.&nbsp; We are truly in a world war against climate change, but until personally affected, many seem unwilling to make any changes or sacrifices as were made during WW1 and WW2.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both the steam engine of the First Industrial Revolution of 1800 and the internal combustion engine of the Second Industrial Revolution of 1900 were met with great resistance. Now, in 2024, we are 20 years into the Third Industrial Revolution, which features the replacement of fossil fuels with clean electricity. It is the most consequential change since 1800. But once again, scientists and governments are facing heavy resistance to change.<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2007, various forms of carbon pricing have been implemented in 42 countries, including most of Europe, Japan, Australia, and China in 2021.&nbsp; Canada\u2019s first carbon trading system was started by Alberta Conservatives. Like Buckley&#8217;s<strong> <\/strong>mixture \u2013 A carbon tax \u201cTastes awful, but it works\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Poilievre has twisted the facts to mislead Canadians. He claims Canada alone cannot make a difference by reducing emissions. All but the USA and China could say that. He claims 42 countries were wrong about a carbon tax because it is ineffective. That is pure misinformation. The key measurement is emissions per capita.<strong> <\/strong>Canada\u2019s emissions per capita are now twice that of China, higher than the USA and second only to Saudi Arabia. Fortunately, they are finally starting to trend downward. The world\u2019s best scientists and economists, along with some simple fact-checking, confirm that the carbon tax is indeed slowing the growth of emissions per capita and must be increased as planned to achieve a faster rate of emissions reduction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the good news: We now have all the necessary technologies and resources to achieve net zero emissions. But to engage and assist all sectors in all possible solutions, we need to gradually increase the carbon tax and use the revenue to accelerate the transition to zero-emission energy. If you are not burning fossil fuels, you won\u2019t pay a penny of carbon tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Liberals and NDP agreed to a small increase in the capital gains tax that will have no significant impact on the top 5% but will help to address some of the fairness issues for lower-income people.&nbsp;But, like Trump in 2016, Poilievre is obsessed with landing the top job and has no problem misleading lower-income voters to further enrich his more affluent supporters by cutting their taxes. Trump\u2019s 2018 tax cuts increased US national debt from $21 trillion to $27 trillion in 2020 and continued to $30 trillion in 2022.&nbsp; It\u2019s much easier to cut taxes than to reinstate them if needed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada has all the technologies and resources it needs to lead the third energy revolution. If we lead the change, our old tech jobs will be replaced by new tech jobs in Canada. If we lag the change, we will still lose our old tech jobs, but the new tech jobs will go elsewhere.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our carbon tax has already engaged many consumers and motivated many industries to invest in the new Zero-Emission technologies (electric vehicles and equipment, heat pumps, ZE buildings, hydrogen, wind, solar, Small Modular Reactors, deep geothermal, co-generation, ZE agriculture).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poilievre\u2019s \u201cAxe the Taxes\u201d campaign is entirely negative. He hasn\u2019t tabled a single positive idea because he\u2019s afraid they won\u2019t pass scrutiny. Canada is a trading nation, and he would cost Canada dearly in reputation, international trade, and the rapidly rising costs of climate change. We don\u2019t have the luxury of time to spend the next five years going backward.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hugh Holland<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2022\/09\/Hugh-Holland-250x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119766\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hugh Holland is a retired engineering and manufacturing executive now living in Huntsville, Ontario.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hugh Holland Our world is at a crossroads. 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