Okay let’s be honest climate change is a tax on the poor. You see that Al Gore’s house consumes 20 times the electricity that a normal home does in TN? He also flies around in a private Gulf Stream jet. It’s good he got an Oscar for his movie about cutting global emissions. Oh, then President Obama who I also voted for is flying twice on Air Force One to Europe. Once to visit Denmark for the Climate Change Meeting. Second trip to pick-up a Nobel Peace Prize (didn’t he just order 30,000 soldiers into Afghanistan?). We poor people will pay higher taxes so these politicians (that I voted for) can pull the wool over our eyes again. They must think we are really stupid.
2. Jamie Eldridge (12/09/2009)
Thank you for your comment. The carbon emission examples you give are minute compared to the global warming generated by the United States, China, and European countries as a whole, and my focus is on reducing emissions so that global warming is stopped.
I agree that any carbon taxes should be progressive in nature, so that poor people are not further overburdened, but let’s not forget that if we don’t stop global warming, it is the poor people of the world, in places like Bangladesh, that will suffer the most.
I think we can do better than that.
3. Mark Kelley (12/09/2009)
I am delighted to see your sponsoring this legislation. It is, of course, a monumental challenge, but, as shown by the recent article: A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables from the November 2009 Scientific American Magazine, we can get all our power without coal and without nuclear central plants. As for costs, they will be high, but not as high as the business as usual path, where diminishing fossil fuels w and/or prohibitively costly nuclear power will present a real tax on everyone. The cost will be steep at first, but like the stimulus, it will be spent and respent locally, and the cost to do it now will be far lower than the cost of delay, both in terms of future expense to catch up, and environmental degradation costs.
4. Josie Carothers (12/09/2009)
Brian, Al Gore, Obama and many, many others are using Carbon Offsets to lessen their carbon footprint. Go online and look up Carbon Offsets and see how concerned people who are, as you say, flying here and there, living in bigger houses, etc, actually doing something to reduce their impact. We’re not going to eliminate rich people in this country or make it fairer, unfortunately. At least these people are doing what they can.
Jamie, I am thrilled with this entry on your blog. Mark and I slept out on the Common as well. The youth need the encouragement that you and many of your fellow legislators have given–aren’t they great to be waking up other young people as well?! Your steadfast support means so much to them, and all of us aware that the fight against climate change has to go on on all levels. But political leadership is at this time the most important. We’re glad you’re there.
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1. Brian V. (12/09/2009)
Okay let’s be honest climate change is a tax on the poor. You see that Al Gore’s house consumes 20 times the electricity that a normal home does in TN? He also flies around in a private Gulf Stream jet. It’s good he got an Oscar for his movie about cutting global emissions. Oh, then President Obama who I also voted for is flying twice on Air Force One to Europe. Once to visit Denmark for the Climate Change Meeting. Second trip to pick-up a Nobel Peace Prize (didn’t he just order 30,000 soldiers into Afghanistan?). We poor people will pay higher taxes so these politicians (that I voted for) can pull the wool over our eyes again. They must think we are really stupid.
2. Jamie Eldridge (12/09/2009)
Thank you for your comment. The carbon emission examples you give are minute compared to the global warming generated by the United States, China, and European countries as a whole, and my focus is on reducing emissions so that global warming is stopped.
I agree that any carbon taxes should be progressive in nature, so that poor people are not further overburdened, but let’s not forget that if we don’t stop global warming, it is the poor people of the world, in places like Bangladesh, that will suffer the most.
I think we can do better than that.
3. Mark Kelley (12/09/2009)
I am delighted to see your sponsoring this legislation. It is, of course, a monumental challenge, but, as shown by the recent article: A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables from the November 2009 Scientific American Magazine, we can get all our power without coal and without nuclear central plants. As for costs, they will be high, but not as high as the business as usual path, where diminishing fossil fuels w and/or prohibitively costly nuclear power will present a real tax on everyone. The cost will be steep at first, but like the stimulus, it will be spent and respent locally, and the cost to do it now will be far lower than the cost of delay, both in terms of future expense to catch up, and environmental degradation costs.
4. Josie Carothers (12/09/2009)
Brian, Al Gore, Obama and many, many others are using Carbon Offsets to lessen their carbon footprint. Go online and look up Carbon Offsets and see how concerned people who are, as you say, flying here and there, living in bigger houses, etc, actually doing something to reduce their impact. We’re not going to eliminate rich people in this country or make it fairer, unfortunately. At least these people are doing what they can.
Jamie, I am thrilled with this entry on your blog. Mark and I slept out on the Common as well. The youth need the encouragement that you and many of your fellow legislators have given–aren’t they great to be waking up other young people as well?! Your steadfast support means so much to them, and all of us aware that the fight against climate change has to go on on all levels. But political leadership is at this time the most important. We’re glad you’re there.