Remarkable news emerging from China: a nationwide carbon tax.
Here is the Xinhua news release and here is New York Times story.
Some reactions from the Atlantic, the Dancing the Revolution blog, and Slate. Some commentary suggests that: tax is small, it's not really a carbon tax (but an environmental impacts tax), and that the costs would be largely borne by consumers in the developing world. These don't really seem like criticisms, though they seem to have been sometimes couched that way.
Of course, the Colbert Report incisively gets to the heart of the matter:
Here is the Xinhua news release and here is New York Times story.
Some reactions from the Atlantic, the Dancing the Revolution blog, and Slate. Some commentary suggests that: tax is small, it's not really a carbon tax (but an environmental impacts tax), and that the costs would be largely borne by consumers in the developing world. These don't really seem like criticisms, though they seem to have been sometimes couched that way.
Of course, the Colbert Report incisively gets to the heart of the matter:
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