UNPAYWALLED: my latest for The American Conservative
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/destroying-canadas-farms-for-what/
On April 1, 2018, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau implemented a national minimum carbon price of $15 (Canadian) per tonne, due to rise to $170 per ton by 2030. Last month, he added a second carbon tax that, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, will “require producers to reduce the carbon content of their fuels or be forced to purchase credits.”
These two carbon taxes will cost the average family more than $2,000 per year, according to the Government of Canada’s own calculations. The same report notes that the taxes will “disproportionately impact lower and middle-income households,” “single mothers,” and “seniors living on fixed incomes.”
If the Bank of Canada’s rumored “digital loonie” comes to pass, Trudeau will have another tool at his disposal. With central bank digital currency, he would be able to impose punitive taxes on, say, meat with a mere flick of a switch, while algorithmically subsidizing meat alternatives such as lab-grown meat or, dare I say, bugs. All in the name of carbon reduction.
One has to wonder, is the focus on carbon taxation purely about reducing carbon emissions? Or is there a deeper, more sinister agenda at play? Richard Lindzen, who served as the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT for 30 years until his retirement in 2013, said, “Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat’s dream. If you control carbon, you control life.”
The maddening part is that even if Trudeau imposes a hundred new carbon taxes, it will all be for naught. Climate change is indifferent to borders, and Canada’s modest population of 40 million does nothing to sway the global balance. If Canada were a Chinese province, it would rank sixteenth in population behind Guangdong (127 million), Shandong (102 million), Henan (99 million), and thirteen others. Coal is the main source of energy in China.
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"If Canada were a Chinese province, it would rank sixteenth in population...."
Wait I thought Canada was a Chinese province.
The Aztecs' model program for managing meteorological events didn't work so great, and perhaps our leaders feel that removing the actual blood-letting aspects of it will do the magic trick.
We do fail to teach our children well. Might be time to create a comprehensive timeline of human attempts to tame the implacable forces of nature, with an analysis of how well they worked.
And my now frequently-reiterated reminder: We ain't modern. We're just now. We can't fix the biggest things no better than anyone who came before us. We can just nibble at the edges, and the edges keep shifting their boundaries.
Anyway--good piece, Chris. Always happy to see your publication credits increase.