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15 September 2014

GREEN ALERT! — carbon taxers are organizing in the Flathead

Do you believe that the earth is warming? Do you believe that global warming is bad for humankind? Do you believe that greenhouse gases generated by humankind are responsible for most of the warming? Do you believe that slowing, even reversing the warming, and the transition to a renewable energy economy, can and should be facilitated through classical market economics?

If your answers are Yes!, then a Monday, 22 September, meeting of like minded people in Whitefish may be for you.

A national group, the Citizens Climate Lobby, proposes accelerating the transition by levying a carbon tax that would make hydrocarbon — coal, oil, natural gas — based energy more expensive relative to solar and wind and other renewable energy. Redistributing the taxes collected to the people, the CCL argues, would make the tax revenue-neutral. It’s a serious and solid enough proposal to get the discussion going, which is why local groups supporting it are forming across the country.

Interested? Then get in touch with Steve Thompson for details and meeting times and places.