Summarised by Centrist
As carbon taxes are added to products in many countries – some on a large scale, some incrementally charged to consumers – a new opinion piece from writer Nick Giambruno calls carbon fees a scam comparable to some of the worst extortions in history.
Giambruno’s says that at the latest World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, participants had to rally behind “individual carbon footprint trackers – tracking what people eat, consume, and where and how they travel.”
He says it’s bad enough that ‘carbon accounting’ and carbon dioxide emissions charges are being forced upon consumers by airline companies.
Giambruno reminds readers that a federal carbon tax is already causing the price of food and other goods and services to rise in Canada and the carbon tax will triple by 2030.
“Imagine if Tony Soprano forced everyone in his neighbourhood to buy breathing credits from him,” Giambruno writes, “This is basically what governments plan to do with carbon credits. Except they are also gaslighting you by telling you they are helping save the planet.”
He calls this “the biggest scam since the [Catholic] indulgences of the Middle Ages” and says the real purpose of carbon credits is financial stability, so that governments and bankers can “secure continued seigniorage [while] the fiat currency system flounders.”
