We want to implement carbon trading, carbon taxes and other similar blunt instruments yet discount the impact of deforestation and the ability of trees to absorb the very carbon we are more than happy to tax. Are we going about this the wrong way?
Thursday 20 October 2016
Why do we accept deforestation?
We are constantly lectured on climate change brought about by global warming. As a population, we are constantly berated about the effects of carbon on the atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels, yet we destroy the greatest carbon absorbing resource on earth with hardly a mention.
We want to implement carbon trading, carbon taxes and other similar blunt instruments yet discount the impact of deforestation and the ability of trees to absorb the very carbon we are more than happy to tax. Are we going about this the wrong way?
We want to implement carbon trading, carbon taxes and other similar blunt instruments yet discount the impact of deforestation and the ability of trees to absorb the very carbon we are more than happy to tax. Are we going about this the wrong way?
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