It seems the only way to impact on climate change and reduce pollution is regulation. Such ideas as banning petrol and diesel cars by 2030 will not work, however. People have to learn to live without the luxury of jumping in the car and driving down the road. There must be some form of "punishment" for driving your car. Sure using a bicycle is virtually free. Obviously, punishment is not high enough yet to make you use the bike
There is no doubt that the cost of motoring will rise dramatically in the future as countries accept the human cause of an unhealthy planet. This is obvious because even now governments are addicted to taxation. The only real answer to change people's life habits is to make it financially painful to do things that damage the environment.
It costs less than $1,000 a year now to register a car. In coming years this will rise to a realistic level of $5,000. It will hurt. Prices in the shops will increase, but the standard of living has to fall to cover the full cost of a green environment. Tax on oil based fuel must go up by at least 500 percent. Coal must be given a very high tax. Power stations using this do pump out tons of carbon dioxide. The price of electricity from dirty power stations must be pushed up. Producing your own solar power is a choice you can make.
There will be political consequences due to this dramatic change in people's lives. The poor will attack the wealthy as they see that the rich can more easily cope with the burden. A more equitable distribution of wealth in countries could be the result. Executive bonuses will be the main target.
This scenario will happen if the planet is to be saved. Continuing along the current destructive path will result in millions of deaths from natural disasters as the weather moves to and fro. City infrastructures will collapse as the cost of maintaining them rises with repeated damage from bad weather. Man will move back to primitive living conditions will no fresh water on tap and no effective sanitation systems.
There will be political consequences due to this dramatic change in people's lives. The poor will attack the wealthy as they see that the rich can more easily cope with the burden. A more equitable distribution of wealth in countries could be the result. Executive bonuses will be the main target.
This scenario will happen if the planet is to be saved. Continuing along the current destructive path will result in millions of deaths from natural disasters as the weather moves to and fro. City infrastructures will collapse as the cost of maintaining them rises with repeated damage from bad weather. Man will move back to primitive living conditions will no fresh water on tap and no effective sanitation systems.
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