Our Carbon Benefit has been a tax-and-lift programme featuring heavily in national polling for the better part of a decade.
It’s a fossil fuel tax. It was pitched by a leader in power. “Always”? I think not.
Plot twist: the demented flatlanders were weaponized by their USA oil-barons via our conservative party, and it’s probably gonna be a memory after next election.
The earth won’t be fixed before I die. For some people that means they don’t support anything to blunt or (please god) revert the damage because they’re selfish. These are the people you’re voting against.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
It’s easier to say stuff because taking these sort of action is most of the time politically suicide, the opposition will drum it up as a bad move that hurt everyone. It take someone with very strong political will and leadership to put these sort of policies ahead.
chiocciola@lemmy.cafe 5 days ago
I guess political suicide is worse than people dying because of climate inaction
/s
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
I mean, yeah, you can enact a radical policy, and then lose the next round to the right leaning party and then they retract back everything you enacted, making the overall result worst. Whoops.
chiocciola@lemmy.cafe 5 days ago
Do you look around and think, “yup, right on track to success!”