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CLIMATE CHANGE + GREEN ISSUES + POLLUTION + GLOBAL WARMING + TRAVEL + INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Climate change * green issues * pollution * global warming * travel * industrial waste * rubbish * contamination * climate change caused by greenhouse gases * river pollution
CLIMATE CHANGE
Whilst experts argue over the reasons for climate change and governments hold expensive summits and debate policy without any serious intention of gaining an outcome that is likely to damage their economy, our world is dieing.
No government is going to commit to any agreement that is going to affect their industries, jobs and economy. The solutions rest with individuals to unite against countries and businesses that pollute our world by not buying their products.
If we hit countries and companies in their pockets because they are serious polluters, they will change their policies. Business is all about profit, all the time it pays companies to pollute our atmosphere they will continue. If their products are boycotted because they have done nothing about pollution they will change.
GLOBAL WARMING
Emerging economies like India and China are amongst the world's largest polluters. If countries like the USA and UK are not prepared to do something positive about stopping global warming, it is extremely unfair to expect countries that are still developing their economies to behave in a responsible manner.
Furthermore, we as individuals need to be more responsible in our actions and purchases.
GREEN ISSUES
Green issues affect all of us and our children and future generations. If you think that your actions and behaviour won't make a difference you are wrong. By not doing anything, you are not caring about your children's future and you can bet your life, that there will be millions of other irresponsible people who will happily condemn their grandchildren to a world poisoned by us.
On the other hand, if everybody does their bit, recycles everything, use less petrol, drive smaller cars, grow their own vegetables, buy less packaged food and take on a much
healthier diet,
and took more responsibility for their own rubbish, there would be less waste to deal with.
POLLUTION POLICY
If you want to reduce pollution, reduce the number of product you buy that contribute to pollution. This involves anything with unnecessary packaging or buying the same thing without the packaging.
A family of five should not need to produce more than one sack of non recyclable rubbish per week.
Large bins would be placed on the corner of every street and road for weekly rubbish collection.
People would be
taxed based on their carbon footprint.
A national identity card would need to be used to travel by plane and people making more than one trip by plane in any 12 month period would be taxed on a rising scale.
There would be green taxes based on the level of gas and electricity a household and business used.
Petrol and oil would also have more tax levied on them and this tax would be comparable throughout Europe to stop people crossing into other countries to buy cheaper fuel. Therefore the highest users of fuel would be the people picking up the bill.
Packaged foods would be taxed.
Junk food and takeaway food would be taxed.
Supermarkets would stop providing disposable plastic bags. Instead they would provide reusable bags free of charge for the first month of implementation. At anytime in the future they would replace bags that were damaged free of charge. Any bags that were not being replaced after the first month would be chargeable and carry tax.
We would like to see an end to all non reusable polystyrene, plastic packaging and bottles of any description.
People who turned their gardens over to growing vegetables would receive a rebate on any taxes on their homes, based on the amount of square metres being used for this purpose.
We would expect our policies to see a return to a higher level of high street shopping, rather than people driving out to the large supermarkets. They would also encourage a
healthier diet and way of life, reducing
pressure on health services.
The cost of food would go up but this would be more than balanced by the extra money people would receive in their pensions and wage packets because of our
tax policies.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Companies and businesses responsible for producing industrial waste and pollution would be taxed on the levels they produced.
Companies that were able to reduce their pollution levels would receive tax breaks.
We have no options open to us as a world. We have to reduce the levels of waste and pollution that we produce.
There is a multi billion industry dedicated solely to dealing with the huge levels of waste and rubbish that we produce.
Householders complain about the fact that their refuse collectors don't collect their rubbish every week, yet continue to churn out bag after bag of household rubbish that then has to be buried in landfill sites or incinerated.
If every household reduced their levels of household waste to a manageable level, if industry was forced to reduce their industrial waste, we would have a far smaller problem to deal with on a world wide scale.
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