So grass Explain why we have a Carbon Tax Coming!

[tweety]

Thanks for posting those Grassy. It certainly makes me think anew about Thanksgiving.

[checking]

Not even remotely true, tweety if you think beyond our tiny world of energy potential.

A space shuttle bay of 25 tonnes of helium 3 contains enough energy to electrify the US for 1 full year. Its value is $3 billion/tonne, and can be extracted from moon dust.

Ever wonder why countries want to get back to the moon, but I see a gas farmer objection in that it would destroy the moon's environment, so it has to be left in the moon soil.

[farmaholic]

We all know those pictures are hard to look at. But no body likes their bags being packed for them for a guilt trip someone else is sending them on.

You think most of us don't know how ****ing good we have it? Everyday! I may do the most pissing and moaning on this site, whine and complain, but it will never be about the lack of " how good I have it" but the bullshit environment I do business in! Never go to bed hungry unless I "choose" to. And when I do go to bed it is a comfortable place to lay. I am warm in the winter and if I want to be, cool in the summer. For Christ's sake...I am smart enough to know I have it better than my parents and A LOT better than my grandparents.
Born into the First World is not a crime. There is opportunity here where there is absolutely none in some other parts of the world. Does this somehow make us "bad"?

[binthere]

very heart wrenching. we should all feel shame that in this day and age atrocities of this kind or any other still occur. wise words spoken by a past president could be applied here with slight alteration. ask not what our world can do for us but what we could do for this world.

[biglentil]

Don't worry everyone Bill Gate's the biggest philanthropist on earth has the solution.

1st he does a great job of outlining the problems of exponential growth of our population and consumption, the challenges of alternative energy. Then he states
"If we do a really good job with vaccines, health care and reproductive services we can reduce the world population by 10% to 15%"-Bill Gates at Ted Talks to a packed auditorium. This is the link to the youtube video everyone should watch:

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DJaF-fq2Zn7I&ved=0ahUKEwj-3LqYr87PAhUM4YMKHbF5CZAQtwIIGzAA&usg=AFQjCNFL7zxZ1 AAJyVY6_S1wIzeBfdTfXg&sig2=4dchlMV2oGAd5b3cADYrtQ

[fjlip]

Re the pictures... heard a correct assessment of that situation from a Aide worker that spent time in the poorest places....THEY HAVE TOO MANY CHILDREN FOR THE AVAILABLE FOOD SUPPLY, simple as that! Their own fault and YES there is a solution...we all know the answer.
Same answer to all poor even in Canada...Kids when you can afford to raise them properly.

[seabass]

Amen fjlip!

[tweety]

And here we have too much food for the number of children. Problems everywhere.

[Hamloc]

Grassfarmer your pictures of starving third world children undoubtably remind us that everyone is not as fortunate. But I am curious what that has to do with a carbon tax or the rampant materialism in our western world. A great number but not all third world countries have corrupt political systems which syphon wealth for themselves at the expense of the general populace. And how is a carbon tax going to attack materialism? Putting people out of work in western Canada won't put food in hungry children's mouths. Just my opinion.

[SASKFARMER3]

Me to what does a child starving have to do with a Useless Liberal Carbon Tax.

We send clothes, Money etc in donations every year. I do My part you send us pictures.

[Oliver88]

I guess Grassy figures we should have a carbon tax to hurt the poor disproportionately more than everyone else so our country is more like the third world?

He figures instead of giving money to World Vision or the Food Grains we will tax the Salvation Army and Food Bank and send the tax proceeds to a government bureaucracy to do "what is right" for us peasants.

And after all this we will still see GHG emissions increase.....just like BC rates are increasing.

[BreadWinner]

Introducing a carbon tax is meant to slow down industry including farming. In fact we may produce less food if things like fertilizer and fuel become too expencive. So by introducing the tax will decrease production and inflate food prices. How will this help the people in impoverished countries? We donate allot of money ourselves to help in these places but if we get less money for our work we will be giving allot less too.