Carbon
Sen. Bernie Sanders has called for a tax on the carbon emissions which cause global warming. “Sen. Boxer and I have introduced legislation to do just that. We are going to do it in a way that impacts fewer than 3,000 of the most significant fossil-fuel polluters in the country,” Sanders said in a new documentary – “Carbon” – by Leonardo DiCaprio and Thom Hartmann. “The reason we do it is that people should not have the freedom – quote, unquote – to destroy the planet. They cannot continue to be able to do that with impunity,” Sanders added. The documentary came out Wednesday. That same day Reuters reported that a town in the Solomon Islands is relocating to escape the rising Pacific Ocean. The project is the first time that a provincial capital with all its services and facilities is being moved because it is imperiled by rising seas caused by the changing climate.
