[MCN] Fossil fuels subsidy : Call it what it is - a tax: IMF says we pay $5.2 trillion a year. Thunberg says it's a "strange world"

[Lance Olsen]

Fossil fuel subsidies: the IMF says we pay $5.2 trillion a year <https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiELYjIIe3d2ipdA2MGzFtt4UqFwgEKg8IACoHCAowlOzSATCaiDUwo9dy?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
We can't take on climate change without properly pricing coal, oil, and natural gas. But it's a huge political challenge.
https://www.vox.com/2019/5/17/18624740/fossil-fuel-subsidies-climate-imf <https://www.vox.com/2019/5/17/18624740/fossil-fuel-subsidies-climate-imf>

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“We live in a strange world. Where politicians say it’s too expensive to save the world, while spending trillions subsidizing fossil fuels.”

Greta Thunberg
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