To the Editor,
Re: “Fossil fuel system offers no alternative,” Inbox, Sept. 18.
The carbon tax has managed to induce many shrill complaints in Canada, including from the corporate news media — even though the tax is more than recovered (except for high-income earners) via government rebate.
Now it seems even B.C.’s NDP government has buckled under the pressure to cancel this tax, however ultimately beneficial it is for most taxpayers. Doing so will likely most benefit the greatest carbon polluters.
We humans can be so heavily preoccupied with our own individual little worlds that we will still miss the biggest of crucial pictures, however overwhelming to us.
Also problematic is the very large and growing populace who are too overworked, worried and even angry about food and housing affordability for themselves or their family — all while on insufficient income — to criticize the fossil fuel industry, etc., for environmental damage their policies cause and allow, particularly when not immediately observable.
Frank Sterle Jr.,
White Rock, B.C.
