For many in Canada who see a changing climate as a serious problem, a carbon tax is a necessary evil.

But does a carbon tax have anything to do with climate science? Or does a carbon tax fall in the realm of the political?

The answer to that question is more of the latter than the former.

This political fact becomes even more apparent when one compares the core organizing principles of these two ideologies of Carbonism and Communism. While Communism seeks to marshal or harness the economic and political power of the nation-state by organizing through the idea of the worker. Carbonism although similarly structured, takes the organizing principle to the next level – first by substituting the nation-state for the world, and then by directly linking the combined economic and political power of each individual in the world, to the carbon footprint each creates in the world. And in the global context of Carbonism, this individual can either be a person, corporation or business.