What personal changes are you making to slow your contribution to climate change?
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Share your future changes in replies if you want to, but please only answer the poll based on changes you HAVE or ARE now making.
"Research shows that carbon taxes effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There is overwhelming agreement among economists that carbon taxes are the most efficient and effective way to curb climate change, with the least adverse effects on the economy." Wikipedia.org
Why a carbon tax?
"Energy prices do not currently reflect these costs of greenhouse gas emissions. Those who benefit from burning fossil fuels generally do not pay for the environmental damage the emissions cause. Instead, this cost is borne by people around the world, including future generations. Imposing a carbon tax can help to correct this externality by raising the price of energy consumption to reflect its social cost."
(...What can the tax money go toward? One option"Rebating the revenues to households on a per capita basis would render the policy progressive, as lower-income households would be more than compensated for higher energy costs, while upper-income households would pay a net tax. "https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-carbon-tax#:~:text=Energy%20and%20Environmental%20Taxes,-<3%2F3&text=Emissions%20of%20carbon%20dioxide%20an d,to%20produce%20less%20of%20them.
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