Tax the Bitch

A poll of more than 15,000 people across 13 nations has been conducted on behalf of Oxfam and @greenpeace, resulting in a whopping 81% of people believing that governments should tax oil, gas and coal corporations for the environmental damage they cause, including wildfires, flooding and drought.

With this international survey revealing overwhelming support globally for such a tax, celebrities, politicians and the public are now backing calls for a polluter tax on fossil fuel companies.

Oxfam reckon $400bn (£298bn) per year could be raised from the levy – enough to cover the estimated annual costs of climate damage in developing nations.

Greenpeace have launched a Polluters Pay Pact calling for the tax. It has been signed by over 150,000 people and you can add your name here.

Actor Peter Capaldi is one such signatory and he said, “It’s utter madness that world leaders are scratching their heads about how to pay for the devastation of flooding, wildfires, and typhoons, while the oil and gas corporations – who are actually to blame for fuelling all this extreme weather – rake in billions in profits,”

“Governments must get those billions to the communities who need it, and bring in polluter taxes, now.”