carbon tax

Editorial: Happiness Is a Carbon Tax

29 December, 2008 | Nicola Ross

The other day, a fellow journalist told me that Happiness equals Expectations divided by Reality (H=E/R). In other words, if you expect Prince or Princess Charming, but reality dishes out a frog, you might not end up being that happy.

Editorial: A $30-Billion Tax Shift

29 December, 2008 | Nicola Ross

A friend of mine in Calgary just bought a home. The neighbourhood isn’t fancy – most houses are 50-year-old utilitarian bungalows – but it’s close to the university and not far from downtown. Although my friend’s purchase is one of the more dilapidated specimens on her street, she paid a cool $800,000 for it. Such is the situation in this heated-up town where I lived for 16 years.

What If...

18 June, 2009 | William E. Rees

LET'S FACE IT – the really inconvenient truth is that the age of unconstrained exuberance is over. Techno-industrial society has broken faith with Gaia and is now wrestling its twin demons of hubris and greed. It is illusory to think that anything can ever be the same. Nevertheless, not a single candidate in the recent Canadian and American federal election campaigns fully acknowledged the global ecological crisis or recognized the transformative possibilities inherent in today’s economic downturn.

The Cost of Carbon

26 May, 2009 | Rick Hyndman

Rick Hyndman, the senior climate change policy adviser to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers in Calgary, has written this article in response to Michael R. King’s thoughts on carbon trading (“No Carbon Copy,” 34:6, 2008). That Canada should mimic the European Union and necessarily develop a carbon trading system is not the path to travel, according to Hyndman. Canadians must face up to what reducing emissions will cost, he warns, and resist allowing emission traders – rather than government – to set the price of carbon.

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