Carbon sucker

[Dr H]

Ah well, Thoreauvian, I know I'm preaching to the choir.
But it is nice to have a receptive, if small, congregation now and then.

It does sound like we're both on the same page, which is encouraging.

However, I was a bit surprised you agreed about the need for a carbon tax, because of your political leaning.

I'm not sure I specifically agreed to a carbon tax, although I have seriously considered it as a stop-gap measure. 

As to my political leaning, I think of myself as a practical anarchist, or perhaps a philosophical anarchist would be more accurate.  While I believe that social anarchy is a desirable state for a fully mature society, I recognize that I will probably not live to see it on any large scale.  In the interim I am willing to use what tools are available to help nudge things in what I see as an appropriate direction -- which includes continually pushing for the governments that do exist to do things which are more conducive to human good, than otherwise.

I have a strong science and technical background, and I can see the writing on the wall.  If the human race dies off, whether through nuclear war or environmental neglect, there won't be any mature future society to worry about, anarchist or otherwise.

So, it's kind of a matter of priorities.