Monday, November 24, 2008

Let's reduce carbon emissions!

We are living in an era where the Earth has suffered enough. The point is, we have no time to wait till the next generation for some steps to be carried out. I have some suggestions to lower the carbon emissions until scientists actually carry out their plans in future.



  • Introduce the Certificate of Entitlement for cars for every country in the world with a HDI higher than 0.50. Each CoE should be worth more than US$ 10,000 for regular cars US$5,000 for hybrid cars and no CoE is needed for electric cars, or public transport. 20% of the money collected from CoE are to go to impoverished nations of HDI under 0.499. The rest are used for carbon offsetting.


  • Lower population all over the world. Target: 4 billion by 2050.


  • Paper and tobacco should be heavily taxed. The tax is used for carbon offsetting


  • Make carbon offsetting compulsory for all travellers travelling by air. The fare should include carbon offsetting.

  • Introduce a watchdog run by the UN to make sure that countries observe the above. The watchdog should be made anonymous and the governments should not know who these watchdogs are.

  • A tax of 20% of the electric bill if the area runs on coal, oil or natural gas. The tax should be used for carbon offsetting.

These are just my views to lower the dangerously increasing carbon emissions

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