One dad’s answers to a school project: Interview Dad on Carbon Tax:

Q1: What are the advantages and disadvantages of a Carbon Tax being introduced in Australia?

There are no advantages because it will cost too much and not improve the environment, even if everyone in the world spent all the money they had saved up doing it. Carbon dioxide gas warms the planet a little bit but is not as dangerous to the climate as scientists though it was. Climate changes mainly due to natural causes like the sun and the oceans, not due to you and me and the climate will not get too hot anytime soon. Clever kids like you will have plenty of time to invent exciting and better ways of making our planet an even nicer home for more people and look after the environment, as children before you have always done since the Romans invented the flushing toilet. Right now, there are many more important and urgent things to fix, like paying back too much borrowed money by many naughty countries, helping with famine in Africa, providing clean water to poor countries and fixing up mean governments around the world.

There are many disadvantages. It will cost more for Australian businesses to make things compared to other countries, so all of Australia will become poorer. Families will end up paying even more for heating, cooking, all their food and most things they buy (even with some of the money being returned by the government). Too much of our money will be wasted on people doing silly jobs, and on expensive machines that don’t work well and on people cheating, all for no benefit as has already happened in Europe. Think, how do we heat your bedroom at night, when we close coal power stations and expensive solar panels have no sunlight and wind turbines have no wind.

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