22.06.2015 - Pope rejects carbon pricing
Many politicians lining up to praise Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment and climate change released last week clearly have either not read it or don’t understand what it says. The most significant thing in the Pope’s encyclical is that it alternately attacks and ignores the two most popular methods governments around the world are telling their citizens will be effective in reducing industrial greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change. The first is carbon taxes, the second, cap-and-trade. The Pope never mentions carbon taxes (such as the one in British Columbia) once, in a 184-page document that is otherwise so detailed in its response to climate change it even attacks the excessive use of, and I quote, “air-conditioning”...............................................Full Article: Source
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