Richest oil states should pay climate tax, says former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Richest oil states should pay climate tax, says former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown
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Richest oil states should pay climate tax, says Gordon Brown
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I have a feeling nations like Saudi Arabia, Russia, and America won't warmly embrace a British exPM's idea for a tax on one of their greatest resources to subsidize foreign nations. Especially when it's framed as their reparations for harming the world.
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The. British are also silent when it comes to paying reparations for their own misdeeds overseas, which unfortunately strips this statement of credibility.
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I found this quote from him pretty rich because of that:
"These producer states have done literally nothing to earn this unprecedented windfall. It represents one of the biggest ever transfers of wealth from poor to rich nations."
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Colonialist hubris at its most egregious. I bet he thinks England "earned" its colonies too.
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