Jim Hansen’s latest paper, shortly to appear in Proceedings from the Natural Academy of Sciences, is comprehensive and well argued. His discussion of the possibility of taking a legal approach to tackling greenhouse gas emissions, taking into account the rights of young people and future generations, ties in with the Feasta climate group’s ideas as described in Sharing for Survival. …
Philadelphians are smart enough to understand a land value tax…
Professor Frank Convery believes that Irish people will never accept land value taxation even though it is the best kind of property tax: and he knows it is because he participated in the EEA conference of environmental taxation in Dublin 2010, which showcased site value tax as an ‘environmental tax’. Maybe he thinks Irish people are too thick to get the message of what is in their interest. It might help if they were actually given the information and offered the choice, don’t you think?
