To the editor,
What’s wrong with a carbon tax? At least some of the causes of climate change are being addressed. We should be more concerned with tackling climate change than adapting to it. We need to go to alternate sources of energy that are clean and renewable. Also a just transition of workers from the fossil fuel field to the newer sources of energy supply. Without a change, our environment is only going to get more unfriendly. We can stop producing carbon if we switch to natural sources of energy that include wind, wave, solar power.
Right now the biggest sources of pollution are from the production of oil, fracking for gas and coal mining. The destruction of forests (Amazon or otherwise) also make things worse as trees store carbon which otherwise pollutes the atmosphere. Natural spaces store carbon too. Big producers of greenhouse gas emissions are the smokestacks that accompany the production of oil, gas and wood products. So if we eliminate these smokestacks, we’ll get rid of major producers of polluting carbon. I say, therefore, let’s ‘axe the stacks.’
Linda Doumont, Nanaimo
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