Fri, Jul 30, 2010 I live in British Columbia. If you pay your taxes on time they give you 100 bucks a year to spend on (in their words) "Something green". the cheque comes with a brief little info pamphlet and vaguely suggests things like compact florescent lightbulbs or bikes or stuff like that. I think a lot of people I know think it's funny to spend it on weed, though.
I don't think it's funny that they throw 100 bucks at everyone to make them stop thinking about the fact that they're not really doing much that seems to actually care about the problem of the environment shitting the bed. Take the issue of worrying about money off the table and the people will be content with pretty much any of the distractions they can buy. I think that more creative, less corrupt incentives need to be thought out for this kind of plan to work.
I live in British Columbia. If you pay your taxes on time they give you 100 bucks a year to spend on (in their words) "Something green". the cheque comes with a brief little info pamphlet and vaguely suggests things like compact florescent lightbulbs or bikes or stuff like that. I think a lot of people I know think it's funny to spend it on weed, though.
I don't think it's funny that they throw 100 bucks at everyone to make them stop thinking about the fact that they're not really doing much that seems to actually care about the problem of the environment shitting the bed. Take the issue of worrying about money off the table and the people will be content with pretty much any of the distractions they can buy. I think that more creative, less corrupt incentives need to be thought out for this kind of plan to work.