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by syshum
2362 days ago
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the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 1.4 percent in the second year after the carbon tax implementation However, it also caused an increase in electricity costs for households and industry, which led to business closures and other economic hardships for businesses and citizens It caused inflationary pressures of just under 1%, and cost the average household about $550 per year in additional costs There were also reports of factory closures due to cost increases, with resulting job losses. One one company reported that they had to pay AUD8 million a year for the carbon tax and was forced to close as a result with all employees losing their jobs But who needs an economy or jobs, right... the government will provide |
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Economic progress cannot ignore the current disaster. Renewable energy creates jobs. We can print money out of thin air but we cannot print The Great Barrier Reef which creates thousands of jobs. Today we are destroying it.
Digging coal to put more money in the pockets of the elites is causing this (from the article):
>>Australia today is ground zero for the climate catastrophe. Its glorious Great Barrier Reef is dying, its world-heritage rain forests are burning, its giant kelp forests have largely vanished, numerous towns have run out of water or are about to, and now the vast continent is burning on a scale never before seen.
>>thousands driven onto beaches in a dull orange haze, crowded tableaux of people and animals almost medieval in their strange muteness