Hawaii bill to raise tourist taxes
*First-of-its-kind Hawaii bill
raises
tourist taxes to fund climate relief.*
The approach for raising funds is a good one, but it falls into the
fashionable error of prioritizing protection against the current level
of global heating
over avoiding future global heating.
Protective measures can be effective today, but if we allow global
heating to continue, it will eventually overwhelm the defense we can
do. We must prioritize stopping it from getting worse.
Yes, we should bail the water our of our lifeboat. But the most
important thing is to plug the holes through which water keeps flowing
in.
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