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I've got a radical idea to help stop global warming. This is a 10-year plan because it would be impossible to implement all these overnight. What does everybody think? Does anybody think this would solve the problem?
-Phase out the legality of private automobile ownership. This would go into effect at the end of the 10 years, allowing time to build a high speed rail infrastructure to replace the Interstate Highway System and other forms of public transit to be developed.
-A law passed to limit how far a person can legally live from their place of employment
-At the end of the 10 years, it will be a felony offense to drive a fossil-fuel powered vehicle without a commercial or agricultural drivers license.
-Require dense, urban environments to be built to absorb people who can no longer live in the suburbs. Retrofit our urban areas to be more like those in Europe
-In the meantime, raise taxes on gasoline so that gas prices are no lower than $6/gallon at the 3 year mark, $8/gallon at the 6 year mark, and $12 gallon at the 9 year mark
-Outlaw all coal power plants. Require all electricity to be generated from renewable sources by the end of the 10 years
-Fund a national public transit initiative to connect America's large cities and also the smaller towns by rail. High speed rail will replace the Interstate Highway System and light rail will connect communities out from there
-Close all airports that at the time of the passage of the law have less than 30 million passengers per year
-Give tax credits to people who move to an area serviced by public transit
-Have strict, national zoning laws the put an end to suburbia. Bulldoze over suburban development no longer livable at the end of the 10-year period. Outlaw suburban and rural living unless one has an agriculture license in which they would be required to live in rural areas.
I have a better idea. Just kill everyone who isn't white and a Muslim. After all, it's those damn blackies, brownies, and Mooslims that are baby machines. Oh, and for good measure, execute all the pickup truck driving yeehaws in the South and Midwest That should knock out the human population to about a couple hundred million
No they wont...why would you ever copy the self destructive policy of your economic competition? this will do less then nothing to solve a problem that is non existent to begin with, you would destroy the instituted world, and all it gory and promise, for what? so good feeling?
grow up.
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