Climate change due to human generated CO2 could very well create chaos and bad effects in rich and poor countries alike.

However, if we humans truly are smart and wish to minimize global warming effects --  we must quickly adopt policies as suggested by ecological economists including the "Environmental Tax Shift."

For example, why not shift taxes off work and business production and, instead, charge user fees on the resource extraction of coal and oil.  Also, there would be additional charges for emitting CO2 into the atmosphere.  This would raise the price of gasoline and energy and encourage conservation and the adoption of resource conserving technology.

Some of the revenue collected by charging carbon fees could be paid into community environmental trusts.  From these trusts everyone would be paid an equal citizen's dividend or "Earthshare", which would be allocated to individual retirement, health savings, education, and housing accounts.

The environmental tax shift should receive broad support from business, labor and environmental groups.  Of course, resource monopolists might not like it but they never created the coal, oil or air in the first place.  

When public officials wake up to the Environmental Tax Shift we will see a major shift towards economic, social, and ecological security.

My question is: why haven't more people heard about the Environmental Tax Shift proposals?

GeoArk