Carbon Tax Credits - More Dirty Pollution With A Clean Conscience
Carbon tax credits sound like a good idea on the surface. Who doesn't like the idea of cleaner air and water? Putting incentives in place that drive industrial and commercial processes in the direction of low emissions or less carbon intensive approaches than those used when there is no cost to emitting carbon dioxide sounds like a good thing. Right? I'm not so sure it's really working out the way it was intended.
First off, what is a carbon tax credit?
A carbon credit is a generic term for any tradable certificate or permit representing the right to emit one ton of carbon dioxide or the mass of another greenhouse gas with a carbon dioxide equivalent to one ton of carbon dioxide. credit
As good as all of this sounds on the surface, this carbon tax idea is a scam.
Carbon tax credits are currently bought and sold on the open market.
For example, currently companies in California famous for being 'green companies' go on polluting the atmosphere as usual and buy carbon tax credits from another country, like Mexico, who then pass laws to prevent their indigenous population in Chiapas from planting crops or burning carbon, like they have for generations. Because of this restriction, the people there can no longer farm and eventually lose their ancestral lands.
Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
-- "Taxman" by George Harrison from The Beatles credit
This scenario is being played out worldwide and funded by banks and corporations who covet the country in questions' resources and targets population that are underrepresented so they can't fight back.
The California company can now advertise that they are carbon neutral even though they still pollute, the governments and banks can profit from the sale of carbon tax credits to those corporations and buy up the foreclosed lands from the wave of bankruptcies forced upon the farmers, while the poor farmers starve from not being able to produce a crop.
This is not a theoretical idea, it is happening right now.
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman
-- "Taxman" by George Harrison from The Beatles credit
In addition, this scam is being sold publicly as an incentive for companies to reduce carbon emissions when in reality the corporations just add their ongoing pollution to the list of costs of doing business, another tax-deductible business expense (carbon tax credits) passed on to the consumer in the price of the product.
When politicians, governments, and world leaders talk about the need for carbon tax credits, no mention is ever made that every living thing on Earth emits carbon. Today we talk about carbon tax credits like it's the holy grail solution to building a cleaner, greener future and any shadow of a doubt that questions the idea is attacked as being a climate change denier and quickly sidelined. It's not politically correct to question this carbon tax even though to do so doesn't deny climate change at all.
Governments are clever in slowly introducing new ideas to the population in a way they will embrace. Like I mentioned earlier, who doesn't like the idea of cleaner air and water? And sticking the cost of cleaning it to greedy corporations sounds good too, even though the public will pay for it in the end.
All these ideas make it easy for us to say yes. Let's charge them for pollution and clean this place up.
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
-- "Taxman" by George Harrison from The Beatles credit
But that's how it's all going to play out really, as they have already demonstrated, and it won't be long before governments tax humans for breathing, reproducing, farming, building, driving and all the other things we do that produce carbon.
Even trees, something we associate with absorbing carbon and producing oxygen, does produce carbon when the leaves fall and decompose and when the tree eventually dies.
Once we embrace a carbon tax it will be embedded into everything we buy, use and even the very act of being alive could become taxable.
Don't ask me what I want it for
If you don't want to pay some more
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
-- "Taxman" by George Harrison from The Beatles credit
I say, don't fall for it. Once the world leaders have a way to tax everything including every breath you take, they will never stop wanting to collect.
We live, after all, on a carbon based planet so carbon is everywhere. It's around us, inside of us and a part of us. Sounds a bit esoteric, doesn't it?
Not only are carbon tax credits not stopping companies from polluting, they are displacing native people worldwide and empowering the global banking cartels and all the corrupting elements in their wake. The fact that they pitch the idea to us like it's saving the planet demonstrates their devious hypocrisy.
Just because an idea is packaged as a good idea so the masses will jump on board doesn't mean that is what is going to really happen. Don't be so gullible and read between the lines. If there's one thing we've learned it's that governments and their politicians will say anything to get their hands on endless supplies of tax money and corporations shifting their costs elsewhere. The very fact that so many governments, politicians, and corporations are getting behind carbon tax credits should be a warning to us all.
Well, as soon as I saw that someone had come up with a new way to pilfer from the serfs, I knew it was a sham. There's absolutely nothing equitable about these proposals. Australia passed one, but it didn't survive long enough to even go into effect, I don't think.
The thing is, good regenerative farming practices will sequester far more carbon than is being released. But then monsanto would go out of business, so we can't have that. Instead, we need to be taxed as soils continue to be depleted, destroyed and washed away.
Not that I have an opinion or anything... ;)
A dead give away to new scams the banksters come up with to foster on the people is when the whole world seems to be drinking the Koolade at once. All the world's media is singing the same song and declaring how urgent it is that we take action now before it's too late (and before we have time to think about the outcomes). The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Fuck those Chicken Little scamsters and their global taxation schemes and the bullshit they rode in on.
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Bam! Spot on.