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**ssupermegatone** · 12-09-2009, 03:52 PM

I have zero problem with a carbon tax so long as industrial emissions in China, etc are treated the same as those in Ontario, etc; petroleum producers in Saudi, Venezuala, Nigeria, Russia, etc are treated the same as those in Alberta; farms in Argentina, the Ukraine, Kansas, and France face the same carbon costs as those in Saskatchewan; and forestry in Sweden and Russia faces the same taxes as in British Columbia.

China has done more unilaterally to combat climate change than any other country in the world – namely the One-child policy enacted in 1979 (not to mention its efforts at population control since the ‘50’s). Since then it estimates that it has 300-400 million fewer people in 2008 than without the policy – basically the population of the USA!

The average Chinese person is responsible for less than a third of greenhouse emissions compared to an American, or a Canadian.

China’s proposals for cutting CO2 by 2050 is more than twice that of the USA (40% to 17% IIRC).

Any more excuses for sitting on your arse and continuing to pollute the world as you see fit while having the cheek to blame others?

12-09-2009, 03:52 PM	#13
ssupermegatone Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 514 Senior Member	I have zero problem with a carbon tax so long as industrial emissions in China, etc are treated the same as those in Ontario, etc; petroleum producers in Saudi, Venezuala, Nigeria, Russia, etc are treated the same as those in Alberta; farms in Argentina, the Ukraine, Kansas, and France face the same carbon costs as those in Saskatchewan; and forestry in Sweden and Russia faces the same taxes as in British Columbia. China has done more unilaterally to combat climate change than any other country in the world – namely the One-child policy enacted in 1979 (not to mention its efforts at population control since the ‘50’s). Since then it estimates that it has 300-400 million fewer people in 2008 than without the policy – basically the population of the USA! The average Chinese person is responsible for less than a third of greenhouse emissions compared to an American, or a Canadian. China’s proposals for cutting CO2 by 2050 is more than twice that of the USA (40% to 17% IIRC). Any more excuses for sitting on your arse and continuing to pollute the world as you see fit while having the cheek to blame others?
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