2% higher taxes = Communism?

Good point... we subsidize and give tax breaks to polluting industries heavily. Somehow, those aren’t ever a problem but funding for wind and solar is.

This whole dumpster fire of a debate imgflip.com/i/3jjenm

They're not scientists, but they know enough to selectively deny research that threatens their ideology.
By the way, I salute you for you courageous debating in this dumpster fire. It is terribly frustrating to deal with deniers. How do you have a respectful debate when one side refuses to recognize facts?

The funniest/saddest part about this particular climate debate was how they finally answered my repeated requests for citations by citing some sources that did not support their proposition at all. They danced around gleefully and high-fived each other for posting 4 articles that probably took them all of 5 seconds to find on Google.

What they said the articles said was: "They're predicting the end of the world in 10 years!"

What the articles *actually* said was: we have 10-12 years in which to act decisively to reduce emissions to avoid the worst of the damage going forward. That's just not the same as saying the world is going to end in 10 years, at all. No one is saying that.

And of course they totally dismissed the substance of the articles, which was: Yes, we do need to act, and now.

Yes, it's frustrating and exhausting to deal with this stuff, but this issue is just too important to ignore.

Carbon Tax doesn't equal Communism though. These Conservatards don't understand that a tax on some of the things screwing up the environment might help prevent them (because they don't want to risk losing more cash from their wallets) but also repair it, but to them, since they're all decrepit boomers, it doesn't matter to them. In their eyes they'll be dead and gone and won't give a crap about how screwed up the environment is.

Excellent points. Why do the Boomers, who supposedly care about seeing their children have a better life, have no problems with just handing us an f'ed up planet? I memed about that a few days ago here: imgflip.com/i/3j2ltc

It's the sad state of hypocritical America