Author and climate scientist Thomas Pedersen says British Columbians should be proud of the lead the province took with its carbon tax. Despite facing possible elimination, it remains an elegant solution to a global threat, he says. In his recently released book The Carbon Tax Question: Clarifying Canada’s Most Consequential Policy Debate, the former executive director of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions provides an engaging political history of B.C.’s pioneering effort and takes aim at cynical politicians offering simplistic slogans aimed at killing carbon pricing. “A single province on the westernmost side of Canada stepped up and showed all nations that fair, redistributive, broad-spectrum carbon pricing could be done and done well, without economic harm,” Pedersen wrote. …The book arrives as politicians at both ends of the spectrum have soured on carbon taxes.