The Carbon Solution

I’m not going to post my stance on the carbon tax; I don’t think my opinion really matters all that much to be honest. I do however want to remark on some of the reactions I am seeing, in particular those that while supporting it have claimed that those that don’t are insensitive to the environmental issues we may or may not be facing and that these individuals are selfish.

To that I have two things I want to say. Firstly:

Theres more than one way to skin a cat, fry an egg or to deal with this issue. 

Just because you are against a carbon tax does not mean you are against change; nor does it mean you believe Tony Abbotts alternative is the way to go. That bring me to the second point:

Just because you disagree with a politician on one policy, that does not make you a supporter of the opposition.

Seriously, supporting the tax doesn’t mean you support Julia Gillard as a politician in general or that people not keen on her are instantly Abbott supporters. Hell, I voted for a politician last year that I can’t stand, not because I wanted to back them but because a single one of their policies appealed to me enough for me to put aside the popularity contest that is todays politics and to cast my vote that way.

So please, regardless of whether you support the tax or not, don’t begin to wave the finger at people who have a different stance as being supporters of the opposition or their policies unless they explicitly state they do. It’s a complex issue and it’s extremely narrow minded to think that there is only two possible ways to attack it.