Karen Challinor

UK

staring at clouds

if the climatologists are right we have about ten years before we can't breathe the air any more

and our politicians measured and considered response to this possible global extinction event was to create a market allowing people who produce lots of CO2 to offset this and "sell" some of these emissions to people who don't produce quite so much, raising lots of tax revenue in the process

a bit like the captain of a sinking ship who instead of doing something that might stop the ship sinking sets up a system whereby the people who don't have so much water in their cabins can sell the empty volume to those that do, while giving the captain a kickback on every transaction, the ship is still going to sink and everyone is still going to drown but the captain will be rich

I think if the situation were so serious that "green carrots" are actually "needed" for anyone, then even our politicians with their rather loose grip on reality, might have done something a little more productive to save the planet than introduce a carbon tax

or maybe they've collectively slipped over the edge and are determined to enact the old joke about taxing the air you breathe for one last final giggle at our expense