Well, the first thing to note is its rather difficult to deny climate change itself, as the earth undergoes climate change nonstop. People are still interpreting climate change as global warming, however, and it doesn't necessarily mean that at all. Scientists have been changing their opinions on whether the earth is warming or cooling for decades now, and if you look at reports now, thye will claim that it has been warming for x number of years.
They will blame a lot of this on CO2, but a lot of times in our history, the CO2 levels have been massively higher than they currently are and we have had very cool periods, so to speak.
Now regarding the carbon credits, my major major problem with this has nothing to do with the fact that it may save the society in one manner (although I don't think it will). My major problem with carbon credits is that the government will yet again get even more money that they can waste on other crap. Why does the government have to profit off the idea of saving our planet...I really don't understand this.
Some other issues with carbon credits involve how certain businesses are naturally less toxic to the earth, which means the tax (that is all carbon credits are is a tax), will essentially be taxed less...isn't this not fair?!? (perhaps it does seem fair, after all, it is apparently fair that we take higher and higher %'s of people's income as it goes up...the fairest thing here would be a flat tax...I don't care how much money a person has, taxing more of it is not fair...I'm a poor college student by the way).
So what happens when a company gets taxed more? They raise the prices on all of their products. What does this do...oh, makes us pay even more sales tax.
I AM SICK AND TIRED OF TAXES AT AGE 18 ALREADY, PLEASE STOP PASSING MORE AND MORE.
Money can't buy happiness. Just video games, which make me happy.
