Effective but not very fair on lower wage workers who struggle to make their home energy efficient & can’t afford an electric car.
Green policies that arent progressive inadvertently act as a wealth transfer, thus making society more inequal.
YoIronFistBro on
Keep in mind that this article is talking in an international context, i.e in the context of countries that actually have accessible and viable low-carbon alternatives, unlike Ireland.
AnyDamnThingWillDo on
The great con job. Big industry pollutes the world but, we essentially pay for their products and take the hit on the cost of cleaning up their mess too.
mrbuddymcbuddyface on
Is that why we have the highest electricity prices in Europe?
And we are blessed with wind energy potential, yet progress is pitiful.
Henry_Bigbigging on
Oh man, the comment section of that article’s going to be wild.
mikeu117 on
Dunno why we even bother when we are such a small country when places like India and china are producing millions of times the pollution we do and billionaires using their private jets creating more emissions than a single person will pollute in a day than we would in a lifetime, but ah sure turn off your light that’ll make a difference.
updoon on
It might work, but it’s not equitable. There is no carbon tax on aviation fuel. But there is on a one 1 litre Micra.
Also the carbon trading system is wrong. Tertiary / consumer industries get the positive effect of hedgerows and grasslands and not the farmers who own, grow and maintain them.
Banania2020 on
ESRI studies predict reductions relative to hypothetical scenarios, not observed outcomes…
AluminiumCrackers on
Imprisoning homeless people would end the homeless crisis. Doesn’t mean it’s a good strategy.
TowerExcellent4546 on
Anyone have an idea on the accuracies of the ESRI environmental reporting from previous years and if they lined up with the data afterwards. Think it would be very relevant knowledge to see how much weight we could give to this report. Personally the carbon taxes have not decrease my level of driving as it’s the lack of real alternatives that is a issue for me
IntentionFalse8822 on
The government has two choices that achieve the same goal of reducing emissions.
1. Spend billions on solar, wind and wave energy to reduce the national carbon footprint and also reduce the price of energy for individuals.
2. Make billions on carbon taxes to force people to reduce their individual carbon footprint by making it too expensive for them to use energy.
And they opt for number 2 on the basis that they don’t have the money to properly upgrade our energy infrastructure while they put the corporation tax billions into a rainy day fund for the next time bond holders come looking for money.
nerdling007 on
Carbon taxes would work even better if there weren’t exemptions for the biggest polluters such as aviation. Also, it should have been targeted on the producer and supplier of the carbon fuels, not the end user. It could be working so much better is the point, instead the way it was implemented has made people rightfully bitter about it while the fossil fuel industry is still drilling away and raking in money.
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Effective but not very fair on lower wage workers who struggle to make their home energy efficient & can’t afford an electric car.
Green policies that arent progressive inadvertently act as a wealth transfer, thus making society more inequal.
Keep in mind that this article is talking in an international context, i.e in the context of countries that actually have accessible and viable low-carbon alternatives, unlike Ireland.
The great con job. Big industry pollutes the world but, we essentially pay for their products and take the hit on the cost of cleaning up their mess too.
Is that why we have the highest electricity prices in Europe?
And we are blessed with wind energy potential, yet progress is pitiful.
Oh man, the comment section of that article’s going to be wild.
Dunno why we even bother when we are such a small country when places like India and china are producing millions of times the pollution we do and billionaires using their private jets creating more emissions than a single person will pollute in a day than we would in a lifetime, but ah sure turn off your light that’ll make a difference.
It might work, but it’s not equitable. There is no carbon tax on aviation fuel. But there is on a one 1 litre Micra.
Also the carbon trading system is wrong. Tertiary / consumer industries get the positive effect of hedgerows and grasslands and not the farmers who own, grow and maintain them.
ESRI studies predict reductions relative to hypothetical scenarios, not observed outcomes…
Imprisoning homeless people would end the homeless crisis. Doesn’t mean it’s a good strategy.
Anyone have an idea on the accuracies of the ESRI environmental reporting from previous years and if they lined up with the data afterwards. Think it would be very relevant knowledge to see how much weight we could give to this report. Personally the carbon taxes have not decrease my level of driving as it’s the lack of real alternatives that is a issue for me
The government has two choices that achieve the same goal of reducing emissions.
1. Spend billions on solar, wind and wave energy to reduce the national carbon footprint and also reduce the price of energy for individuals.
2. Make billions on carbon taxes to force people to reduce their individual carbon footprint by making it too expensive for them to use energy.
And they opt for number 2 on the basis that they don’t have the money to properly upgrade our energy infrastructure while they put the corporation tax billions into a rainy day fund for the next time bond holders come looking for money.
Carbon taxes would work even better if there weren’t exemptions for the biggest polluters such as aviation. Also, it should have been targeted on the producer and supplier of the carbon fuels, not the end user. It could be working so much better is the point, instead the way it was implemented has made people rightfully bitter about it while the fossil fuel industry is still drilling away and raking in money.