Carbon Tax

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  1. Hi my name is Sarah
  2. and I will be talking about carbon tax for my
  3. final paper.
  4. For communication for 33 or environmental communication.
  5. So
  6. why
  7. Because of carbon emissions.
  8. So the greenhouse effect is a natural process
  9. that keeps the earth at the temperature.
  10. That needs to be just the same life
  11. for us for us to live on earth
  12. Without the greenhouse effect.
  13. The earth will be on average as low as -18 C in temperature.
  14. The greenhouse effect is
  15. getting stronger and stronger every day as humans through
  16. activities such as cutting down trees and fossil fuel use
  17. um will release more greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.
  18. This eventually will cause a rising temperature which will
  19. which we call global warming.
  20. Here's just like a small little picture that
  21. how greenhouse greenhouse effect is like you see
  22. like the industries and the people and everything
  23. like the earth is like releasing like um
  24. like
  25. carbon dioxide and other chemicals in the air
  26. and with that we create global warming and eventually if we don't take
  27. care of our earth um This is how it will look like.
  28. So where um I want to focus on like the United States in general right now.
  29. But I also I'm just thinking about if I should focus on
  30. specific states but in 2018 only the only in the United States
  31. Produced £14.. trillion pounds of greenhouse gasses.
  32. In 2020.
  33. The US greenhouse gas emissions counted five billion metric tons
  34. of carbon dioxide which was released in the air.
  35. According to the article that EU.
  36. The United States Environmental Protection Agency sent out was that the
  37. total greenhouse gas emissions by economic sectors from 29% from transportation,
  38. 25% from electricity generations.
  39. Um 23% from industries, 10% from agriculture,
  40. 7% from commercial and 6% residential.
  41. What is being released in the air from
  42. these economic sectors are 3% flu ordinated Gasses,
  43. 7% nitrous oxide,
  44. 10% methane and 80% corporate dioxide.
  45. Here's this picture that I found online about
  46. um
  47. homeless percentage. Each things are putting in the air and what is the most
  48. obviously the carbon dioxide.
  49. Okay so what um those who don't know what carbon taxes are,
  50. It is a core policy for reducing and eventually eliminating the use
  51. of fossil fuels whose combustion is destabilizing and destroying our climate.
  52. The carbon tax is a way to have users of carbon fuels pay for
  53. the climate damage that they are creating
  54. by releasing carbon dioxide into our atmosphere.
  55. Here is a small picture of um
  56. That has like these 15 states are like have the most of the fossil
  57. fuels and like how like by population um if they have policies or no policies
  58. so who the stakeholders and the people that are effective of carbon tax
  59. taxes is the energy intensive industries and low income households the most.
  60. But it also affects the government.
  61. Um It also just affects all of this.
  62. So like companies that are considered energy giants like electric companies
  63. and hundreds of other companies that have locations and
  64. factories all over the world in multiple countries.
  65. Mhm.
  66. So my focus on at the moment is to just see
  67. how the or look at how carbon taxes affect different companies
  68. and what like if certain companies have different kinds of
  69. policies um when it comes to the carbon taxes,
  70. I also want to look at how
  71. the relationship between the government and these companies
  72. that are being taxed is because obviously to have some policies the government has,
  73. the government has to have some kind of say.
  74. And
  75. what I'm hoping for is to just with this presentation is for you guys to like just
  76. have a broad understanding of what I want to focus on doing my final paper
  77. But I'm open for suggestions of like how I can make my paper stronger or
  78. better by like focusing on certain topics and
  79. staying on track for the whole 10-12 pages
  80. because I want to be able to stay on track and like whoever is reading
  81. it doesn't get bored or loses track of where what they're actually reading about.
  82. So that goes through my two questions for the end is um Should I focus on
  83. the U. S. In general or should I
  84. do specific states in the US that I can focus on that have
  85. kind of like see how the carbon taxes is different.
  86. Um And the second one is do you think that
  87. focusing on the relationship between the government and the companies that
  88. are being taxed is the best option for the paper?
  89. Or should I
  90. focus on different actors?
  91. Or like what actors could I focus on for this for this paper? And why?
  92. Why would that help me more?