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Reactionaries like the Koch brothers have spent millions to try to convince people that a carbon tax is a bad idea for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and slowing down climate change, while the facts show that cap and trade works to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. For example, in New England, EPA established a cap and trade system to bring down the NOx (nitrogen oxides) and SO₂ (sulfur dioxide) emissions that are the source of acid rain, and that program has been wildly successful, with even the electric power industry there supporting it. See: [link] But, when people are told that any carbon tax will double the cost of gasoline (lie) and that it is "socialism" (another lie), progress comes to a screeching halt.

So, we spend hundreds of billions of dollars to provide the military security to ship oil from the Middle East, and are now in the process of digging up the Athabascan tar sands in Alberta, Canada, which will, like all other finite resources, run out sooner or later, but at a tremendous environmental cost.

In the meantime, carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere continue to increase, average global temperatures keep rising, and weather patterns are becoming more extreme.

Who benefits from this?

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Please disseminate widely, thank you! This does not give permission to alter or claim credit for this re-mixed work, for which I retain all copyrights. The original illustration is in the public domain.

If you disagree with the views expressed here, please be sure to read my Policy Statement BEFORE you post: [link]

Reactionaries like the Koch brothers have spent millions to try to convince people that a carbon tax is a bad idea for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and slowing down climate change, while the facts show that cap and trade works to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. For example, in New England, EPA established a cap and trade system to bring down the NOx (nitrogen oxides) and SO₂ (sulfur dioxide) emissions that are the source of acid rain, and that program has been wildly successful, with even the electric power industry there supporting it. See: [link] But, when people are told that any carbon tax will double the cost of gasoline (lie) and that it is "socialism" (another lie), progress comes to a screeching halt.

So, we spend hundreds of billions of dollars to provide the military security to ship oil from the Middle East, and are now in the process of digging up the Athabascan tar sands in Alberta, Canada, which will, like all other finite resources, run out sooner or later, but at a tremendous environmental cost.

In the meantime, carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere continue to increase, average global temperatures keep rising, and weather patterns are becoming more extreme.

Who benefits from this?