EU to unveil tough climate rules, with tax on foreign firms

AP ^ | 7/14/2021

[Right Wing Vegan]

The proposals by the European Commission, which is the EU’s executive branch, will cover everything from tougher caps on car pollution to new national limits on gases from buildings. It will see a revamp of the bloc’s emissions trading scheme under which companies pay for the gases they send into the air.

The new legislation will involve around a dozen major proposals — most of them building on laws already in place to meet the EU’s old goal of a 40% cut in gas emissions by 2030, compared to 1990 levels — and must be endorsed by the 27 member countries and EU lawmakers.

World leaders agreed six years ago in Paris to keep the global warming increase to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), and ideally no more than 1.5 degrees C (2.7 F) by the end of the century. Scientists say both goals will be missed by a wide margin unless drastic steps are taken to begin cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

The European Commission wants to exploit the public mood for change provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s already channeling more than a third of a massive recovery package aimed at reviving European economies ravaged by coronavirus restrictions into climate-oriented goals.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Climate Change is going to ruin us. Not because the climate is actually changing, but because of all the insane policies that they think will stop it.

But that was the first goal, anyway. Neo-Malthusians. Club of Rome, Alexander King, Maurice Strong, etc. Reduce the human population by 90% by destroying Western technology.

[pepsionice]

When the day comes and you lay out the cards to this...everyone is urged to become vegan, electricity soars up 200-percent as E-cars are mandated, a thousand pages of regulation to mandate your life on a 24-hour basis, and some government agenda set up to limit your travels (flights) or your vacation dreams....the whole thing will collapse.

When the EU came to suggest that they would manage the power or watts to vacuum cleaners or tea kettles...I figured that would kinda poke people into asking how much government management you needed in your life.

[AZJeep]

Yope, It will destroy the environment too.
Imagine all Earth covered by solar cells! What a beautiful picture!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Trump would tariff the crap out of EU countries if they taxed American firms for their carbon plan.

But he’s not in charge, is he, Democrats and GOP-e.

[RockyTx]

the middle class is always their enemy

[Alberta's Child]

I look at this differently. Nonsense like “climate change” is the inevitable result of unfettered affluence. Once a society reaches the point where it has pretty much solved every vexing problem facing human civilization, its economy grinds to a halt because it’s impossible to sell more sh!to to people who already have everything they need.

In this scenario, the only way to grow the economy is to convince people to buy sh!t they don’t need — like wide-screen TVs, a second home, a third car, overpriced Starbucks coffee, and “gender reassignment” surgery.

And once that overload of extraneous sh!t runs its course, the only way to grow the economy is to COMPEL people to buy sh!t they don’t need — like “environmentally friendly” appliances, electric vehicles, COVID vaccines, and stupid wars all over the Middle East.

[ronnie raygun]

tax on foreign companies, this is what its all about

[Brian Griffin]

Any organization of countries that depend on the export of luxury goods should be very careful to avoid the creation of luxury good taxes in other countries.

[Brian Griffin]

I can do without Europeans, Europe and most especially, the European Union.

[dynachrome]

It’s all about the benjamins. Stealing the money and crying about their phony glo-bull warming.