How does the carbon tax reduce emissions?

Question

It seems to me it just makes people pay more tax and doesn’t actually help climate change. I researched the Canadian carbon tax btw

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Answer 1

That’s exactly what it’s for, to just add another tax to the public.

Does anyone actually know what percentage humans contribute to Annual Global emissions? It’s less than 4% of all annual global emissions (oceanic being the biggest contributor to emissions):

>our output of 29 gigatons of CO2 is tiny compared to the 750 gigatons moving through the carbon cycle each year

[https://skepticalscience.com/human-co2-smaller-than-natural-emissions.htm](https://skepticalscience.com/human-co2-smaller-than-natural-emissions.htm)

Kind of funny how Greta just ‘disappeared’ after the Canadian elections, and even funnier how she focused on a Country that contributes to less than 2.5% of annual human Emissions, and majority of that is from our forests:

>**Canada emits** roughly 700 megatonnes of **CO2** each year

[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/canada-forests-carbon-sink-or-source-1.5011490](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/canada-forests-carbon-sink-or-source-1.5011490)

Amazingly Canada pays Carbon taxes for contributing to less than 0.09% of the global Emissions ‘slow clap’.

When you have ‘climate change deniers’ they don’t deny that the world is entering into a state of climate change (The worlds gone through 6 major climate disasters btw) they are denying the human element of it. Saying “10k Scientists signed a study” or “the facts are there, and your stupid if you don’t believe it” is not an argument, climate change deniers don’t believe that humans contributed solely to the environmental changes, and that the world will and is continuing to enter natural climate cycles. It’s a easy way to tax people (as we see in this case) without people getting angry.

Even if Canada was to produce ZERO emissions it still wouldn’t solve anything.

**Edit**: to the people who are going to vote me down, at least have the balls to tell me how I’m wrong, because all I’ve done is given facts.