Re: Climate Change.
Originally Posted by
The Artful Todger
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I would very much like to see rationing brought in for a number of things. Air travel for example, even a prohibition on transporting foodstuffs over say 200 miles from source to consumer. Then a cost to produce tax based on energy required - and increased taxes do adversely affect sales.
There's lots more simple steps that can and should be made and every step that I make to reduce my environmental footprint helps everyone and everything in especially the biosphere to some extent so the argument based on whataboutery just doesn't hold water.
Anyhoos - I'm going to drop out of these environment hero bashing threads. It's just a continued "yes they are --- no they're not" argument.
Thank you. Permit me to precis your suggestions.
- Rationing for 'a number of things' (unspecified).
- Air travel: you don't specify which/how many would be banned. The Royal Family?
- Transporting foodstuffs from source to consumer over 200 miles: I'm racking my brain to think which of the items I eat can be produced within a 200 mile radius of my home, and apart from eggs and milk products I can't think of much else. Curries would be right out.
Perhaps you're right; you should drop out of these 'environment hero bashing' threads.
Incidentally, I don't see the London hippies as anything like 'heroes'. Quite the opposite in fact.