make electricity really cheap. Focus on nuclear, deregulate a bit to lower construction costs [2]
promote nat. Gas as a coal substitute
treat our sewage. I think some facilities are planned/under construction... I thought Canada was supposed to be a first world country.
Things that are admirable but not actionable:
Funding fusion research. Fusion would be nice, but you shouldn't make plans around something that hasn't materialized yet. By contrast coal power is still a thing and today we can easily cut those emissions in half with nat gas.
note 1: Taxes make pollution worse by making people poorer. Dealing with waste properly (like recycling, taking trash to dump) costs money; the poorer you are the more likely you'll just dump it.
note 2: Cheap electricity lowers ghg by making EV, and electric heating more attractive.
Duh. Urban ghg come from urban areas.
Ways Canada carbon tax reduces ghg:
Things turdy did/plans that makes ghg worse:
Ways we can reduce ghg:
Things that are admirable but not actionable:
Funding fusion research. Fusion would be nice, but you shouldn't make plans around something that hasn't materialized yet. By contrast coal power is still a thing and today we can easily cut those emissions in half with nat gas.
note 1: Taxes make pollution worse by making people poorer. Dealing with waste properly (like recycling, taking trash to dump) costs money; the poorer you are the more likely you'll just dump it.
note 2: Cheap electricity lowers ghg by making EV, and electric heating more attractive.
And the government operates at 0 cost and 100% efficiency? No, so there is additional cost that needs to be payed for "somehow".
Also sales tax is charged on top of carbon tax - which is not returned. So carbon tax is also an increase of sales taxes.
Also, carbon tax inflates the COST of everything, which causes inflation - which makes the 99% of people poorer.