Climate change requires action
Re: “A carbon tax for a cooling world,” Letter, April 6.
Simply go to the NASA website to see that the trend line in global temperature is very clearly continuously upward.
The letter goes on to damn the “economically crippling ” carbon tax. Where is the evidence for that assertion?
Your readers may like to note that Sweden has a carbon price of about $170 per ton, yet has one of the strongest economies in Europe.
As stated by the World Bank: “Sweden has the rare distinction of having consistently curbed carbon dioxide emissions over the past two-and-a-half decades while enjoying solid growth.”
It can be done and does not have to be economically crippling.
It is time to acknowledge that anthropogenic climate change is a reality, is serious, and needs urgent action. Geoffrey King, Calgary