Passing the Buck

A carbon price would begin to offset the damage the free carbon economy has and is causing. The Fiscal costs of climate change and carbon emissions  on health, infrastructure, city planning, etc. are already costing trillions. This excludes the damage of rash storms and other infrastructure issues caused by higher tides, droughts and heavy inclement rains. Cities, taxpayers  and health care is baring the brunt of  the increased costs, thus subsidizing carbon companies currently passing the buck or the cost onto other industries to pick up the tab as well as leaving the lions share as environmental debt to future generations.  That should be the name of my book on climate change _Passing The Buck_ as pretty much that is what the fossilized thinking of the fossil fuel industry has done, they pass the costs on to everyone else and we are literally bankrupting ourselves trying to clean it up.  So I am not so much into Rev neutral taxes. It’s similar with a living wage, Most Walmart employees are on Welfare ( our tax dollars ) so the Walton family can make a 17 billion dollar profit. They would have only made 14 billion if they paid $15 an hour. We are subsidizing the corporate wealth on both ends of the chain and it has started to snowball into massive wealth disparity. They suck money out of communities. The Oil industry is doing the same thing. We need to actively design a low carbon lifestyle that out performs the fossils, old fashioned, out dated approach. The internet didn’t ask permission to take over the fax machine. The cell phone industry didn’t yell at land lines they simply made something better that was irresistible. That’s what we need to do now.  A well designed low carbon economy that is so sexy we can’t resist it. CoolHive wants to provide the platform for the design thinking and collaboration that is underway to make this a reality. Celebrating the great modern design of a low carbon economy that innovates, provides efficiencies and is smarter from the ground up. Healthier now and for future generations of all species.