{"id":8434,"date":"2018-10-30T23:59:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T23:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=8434"},"modified":"2018-10-31T00:03:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T00:03:09","slug":"anti-solutionist-brain-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=8434","title":{"rendered":"Anti Solutionist Brain Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><strong>Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer says carbon taxes are the solution to climate change. &#8216;The problem is not knowing what to do.The problem is getting a consensus to act&#8217;<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Prominent members of the brain trust of anti carbon tax proponents include Jason Kenney, Leader of the United Conservative Party \u00a0,Scott Moe Premier of Saskatchewan,Doug Ford Premier of Ontario and Andrew Scheer Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<em>(Rumour has it that all have bought tickets on the Titanic 2 \u00a0inaugural voyage)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Doug Ford threw in some false statements about science to make his anti carbon tax case. In the Ontario premier&#8217;s words, the federal plan to put a price on carbon pollution would drive up prices on every single good and service <em>&#8220;because everything is made of carbon, one way or another.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8452 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Court-Painter.-because.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Court-Painter.-because.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Court-Painter.-because-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Court-Painter.-because-768x546.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8444 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/andrew-doug.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/andrew-doug.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/andrew-doug-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/andrew-doug-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8443 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/moe-doug.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/moe-doug.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/moe-doug-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/moe-doug-768x453.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8442 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dougjason.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dougjason.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dougjason-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dougjason-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Doug Ford statement is false. Carbon is the fifteenth most common element in the Earth&#8217;s crust; found in various living and non-living things like humans, plants, limestone, coal and water. It\u2019s in the atmosphere as part of carbon dioxide, that make up 0.04 per cent of the gases in the air.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8447 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Court-Painter-Anti-Carbon-tax-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Court-Painter-Anti-Carbon-tax-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Court-Painter-Anti-Carbon-tax-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Court-Painter-Anti-Carbon-tax-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"viafoura\">\n<div class=\"vf-widget vf-share-bar-horizontal\" data-widget=\"sharebar\" data-button-view=\"false\" data-path=\"\/radio\/asithappens\/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.4843029\/nobel-prize-winning-economist-says-carbon-taxes-are-the-solution-to-climate-change-1.4854639\" data-show-labels=\"true\" data-show-counters=\"false\" data-show-total=\"false\" data-widget-id=\"w43\">\n<div class=\"vf-widget vf-share-bar-horizontal vf-share-bar vf-share-bar-default\" data-show-total=\"false\" data-show-counters=\"false\" data-button-view=\"false\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer says carbon taxes are the solution to climate change. &#8216;The problem is not knowing what to do.The problem is getting a consensus to act&#8217; Prominent members of the brain trust of anti carbon tax proponents include Jason Kenney, Leader of the United Conservative Party \u00a0,Scott Moe Premier of Saskatchewan,Doug Ford &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=8434\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anti Solutionist Brain Trust&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8434"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17752,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8434\/revisions\/17752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}