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Making Things Matters - Don't Carbon Tax essential Things
According to those pushing the carbon tax, 500 bureaucrats
googling away quietly in Canberra and generating little useful
except carbon dioxide exhalations, are more valuable than 500
farmers, foresters, fishermen, workers and miners whose machines
also generate more of the same harmless carbon dioxide in order
to produce the food, fibres, hardware and energy needed for our
daily existence.
It is a suicidal policy to levy a carbon tax on people who
produce things but not on those who don't.
Such an attitude shows how removed from reality the deep green
mentality has become.
It is only since humans learned to harness carbon energy that we
have been able to generate sufficient surpluses to support art,
culture, academia, bureaucracy and big cities.
In the green energy society, before coal and oil replaced our hay
burning horses and bullocks, most of the food produced was
consumed by the large farming families, their labourers and their
draught animals. Any surplus went to service people like
butchers, bakers, blacksmiths and saddlers. Cities were small and
there was little left for the tax man.
It is not the bureaucracy or the carbon tax that produces eggs
for breakfast, electricity for the toaster, gas for the barbie or
petrol for the car. It is hard working men and women with
resources, skills and carbon powered machines.
30th January 2012
Making Things Matters.
Viv Forbes,
Rosewood Qld Australia
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Publish Date: 30 Jan 12
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