[ganafagol]

The age of the proposal for carbon tax mirrors the age of sophisticated "reasons" why it should not happen or why it's supposedly not a good idea "if you think about it".

Nonsense. It's lobbyism. In more drastic terms, corruption. Plain and simple.

We can have this "discussion" once significant industrial nations have implemented a carbon tax. Until then, it's all just excuses. Similar to all the bunch of nonsense people come up with why they can't start working out today or save money today or go to bed right now instead of after watching the next episode of whatnot-series.