ABSTRACT
Ecotaxation is now irreversibly part of the modern political and economic scene. Increasingly, the use of revenues for a variety of employment and social justice-related reasons is becoming more commonplace. The ultimate dilemma is that ecotaxation is another package of payments whose objective is to lower the cost of the transition to sustainable development in the most efficient and fair manner possible. The fact that burdens, which heretofore fell on the poor and the vulnerable without troubling the rich, now have to be shouldered by the better-off prove one of the great tests for ecotaxation. This conundrum reveals that the transition to sustainable development tell people more about how collectively value the civilities of justice and democracy than it tell about one concern for the planet. The world of non-sustainable growth has clothed itself in a web of intricately interconnecting prices, subsidies and taxes that cannot easily or simply be reconstructed towards sustainable development without much trial and error.
