eek! so belfast is finally over me and my panic has left! now time to do that pile of work left with the excuse of i have an exam!
so after watching the age of stupid last night i have brought 2 things out of it:
-firstly, why on earth has this world got a crazy habit of producing something in one country processing it another packaging another then selling it in the country it was produced in! are we thoroughly gone as a species.
Subsistent farming here i come. i think we would all be better off buying areas of green land and having it to grow our own food, LDCs do it so why can't we i think the western world needs to stop thinking they are superior to those who are lessed developed because in fact soon they will be the ones with the advantage as they use low level technology (loving this idea already) grow the majority of their own food in a permaculture or similar idea in their garden and if they don't have it then they just trade within the country.
-Secondly, i have a little bit of a love for the idea of a carbon card, now i can't quite remember how it was metioned within the film as this was me post exam! (brain dead) Anyway, i think it would be awesome if we were to ration carbon, that would surely not only help with global climate change but also lessen the development gap, so if everyone was given an equal percentage of carbon they were allowed to use each year and have it 'credited' to them then everytime we used anything that used a high amount of carbon it would be deducted from our total and once we run out thats it. of course the total amount credited to the world population would have to be under what is considered relatively sustainable as i am pretty sure so corrupt government or western snob would find their way around the scheme. Also the country as a whole would still be emitting carbon and other green house gases into the atmosphere from activities such as industry.
Finally it seems upon discussion in this mornings pre exam work shop that the world would be a better place if everyone had an alpaca in their back garden and a few chicken or perhaps even a street cow!
Love the idea of a cafboncard, would you allow peoppleto trade in their excess carbon credits though? One of the more controversial elements to the Kyoto agreement, and one hotly debated for the yet to appear successor, don't forget Kyoto runs out at the end of this year, and we are still to finalise penalties, come up with a solution to developing countries that is fair and hopeful,y avert any form of disastrous climate change -a topic to be debated in class at length.
ReplyDeleteI did enjoy this movie, but it wasn't teaching me anything new, though I did think Pete Postlethwaite did a great job.
No way would i let excess carbon credits be traded, if this were to happen it would mean that all the MDC's would still have an advantage on the LDC's as they would be able to buy themselves the lifestyle they want. Not only this but how would the development gap benefit from it?
ReplyDeleteI personally think this would be quite a good way to go as a solution. I think though that the only way for any of this to work or any penalties to be effective would be to find someone who was unbiased to control it all on some database as a computer database world wide would have to be formed. This to could cause an issue in LDCs where this technology would be expensive, therefore the world is going to have to show some unity to tackle all of this.
Also a ban on products,that have taken a lot of green house emissions to create, entering a country would ensure that industry started to become cleaner as if there was a lower demand then there would be no point making supplies!