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Originally Posted by Arragonis
So what do we do to effect the changes that might be required - what policies to use, how should they be enacted ? How do you go from where we are now to where you think we should be ?
I'm thinking more on a national and international scale.
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Replant the forests. Tax fuel. Tax the hell out of fuel, then tax it some more.
I think the increasing reliance on cyber-business goes a ways towards helping lower our energy footprint.
One big problem with a global capitalist system is that it encourages a fast turn-over of products and planned obsolescence. You somehow have to find a way to disincentivize that, make for leaner manufacturing, and less of it. Ironically, for those businesses which make lifetime products to survive, you will probably still need international shipping.
Hell... Let's make this easy on ourselves... Let 90% of the world population die off and we can stop carbon emissions overnight.