Source: Naomi Klein: Let's kick oil while the price is down – video, The Guardian, April 7, 2015.

Extended Quote: by Naomi Klein:

 “(Current) low oil prices means we could introduce a fair and meaningful carbon tax. Something that is much harder to do when petrol is expensive. And if we don’t do it, low oil prices will just encourage more dirty consumption.

The money raised from that tax could go towards green infrastructure. Which, in turn, would create a whole lot of jobs. The million jobs that some labor groups have been calling. And that job creation makes a hell of a lot more sense than what the fossil fuel companies are currently demanding: a new wave of tax cuts and other bail outs. Apparently, so they wound lay off more workers.  That’s insane.

If public money is going to be spent on energy jobs, it has to be for the jobs that will save us, not cook us.

In truth, we have to wind down the parts of the economy that is fueling climate change. “

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