Letters: Using the carbon tax to play politics has been wrong, irresponsible
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Letters: Using the carbon tax to play politics has been wrong, irresponsible

Politics tamfitronics Letter writers defend the federal carbon tax and Canada Post.Published Oct 05, 2024 • Last updated 23 hours ago • 3 minute readWriter Randy Graham says the carbon tax has become too much about politics and not enough about needed policy. Photo by Brent Calver /PostmediaThe carbon tax is being treated as a political issue rather than one of responsible governance. It is understood that the carbon tax is primarily a signal to change habits so we can curb forest fires, drought and severe flooding.When instituted, I believe there is an opportunity for the province to dictate how the carbon tax rebates could be distributed.Perhaps changes in the redistribution of money collected could be made. For example, there could be zero rebate for the wealthy (who seem to complain the most) and substantially increase the...
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Far right using climate crisis as bogeyman to frighten voters and build higher walls | Jonathan Watts
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Far right using climate crisis as bogeyman to frighten voters and build higher walls | Jonathan Watts

Politics tamfitronics A disrupted climate and diminished natural world are widening the dividing lines of ideological debate. Left unchecked, this will undermine democracy.That may not be the first thing on the minds of British voters as they go to the polls on Thursday. It is probably also a minority view in the rest of Europe or the US, where people are too much in the thick of a polycrisis to consider anything outside politics and economics as usual. But from a distance, in my case from the Amazon rainforest, there is a very different explanation for the tremors being witnessed in the old world and the new.How rising emissions distort our political ecosystems is not nearly as well understood as the scientific certainty that they are heating our world. Hundreds of academic papers detail the...
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