The hoo-haa over the climate change bill
You’ll have noticed how the tax payer is increasingly going to be left to foot the bill, while polluters, I mean industry, will get away with concessions – thus being allowed to get ‘off the hook’. Off the hook from what? Well, essentially not anything that’s really their fault.
They set themselves up as businesses in an economy that based upon cheap (undervalued) carbon use. That means it’s a lopsided economic playing field. The reactions from people/business against the bill (which is already fairly weak) is a reaction which they feel will make the playing field uneven, but will in fact make it level at a global level – because it takes into account the REAL cost of carbon usage/pollution.
This is the tip of the iceberg. One way or another, and so much depends on the strength of the Government, which right now seems very concerned with currying favour at the next election (understandably – no power-for-change in opposition after all), we are going to have to get used to the reality of a post-cheap-carbon, perhaps even a post-carbon (which is the reality, but we find that one harder to digest) at a political and economic level.
And it all means that the kind of things people do to make money now are simply not sustainable. It’s not the job of the tax payer to support that – but it is the job of a government to work out we move forward in a way that provides the best social outcomes for this country and the world of which it is a part.
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