With a carbon tax, politics is less taxing<\/p>\n
Seventy-five percent of years go by faster than average. That’s technically true (thanks to leap years), but for the longest stretch, it felt, if anything, like an understatement to me. I would always reach December, and, in disbelief, gawk at the passing of another 12 months. Not in 2018.<\/p>\n
I think the difference is the news cycle. We’ve all noticed it. Important things seem to be happening at a faster-than-usual rate. To keep some perspective, I always have to ask myself: “will I care about this story \u2013 will I even remember it \u2013 in a decade?” For all but a few headlines, I can confidently answer in the negative. That doesn’t mean the stories aren’t important, just that they don’t need to stop me dead in my tracks and make me drop my iPad (plus, screen repairs were getting expensive). But a few stories are harder to shake using this tactic. When I read about any one of the latest climate reports, I have a hard time telling myself that the passage of time will do anything to help.<\/p>\n
Indeed, on its own, it won’t. But we have agency here. Ultimately, solutions will have to be political. A price on putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere \u2013 what’s known as a carbon tax \u2013 is a solution I’ve chosen to focus on.<\/p>\n