The simple fact is, the automobile is not even close to being the biggest threat to this planet or to mankind. Before anybody flames me, it's worth remembering that I've probably been car free for longer than anybody else on this board, it's just a fact. The rate at which people are breeding is what's really chewing through the world's resources. Even if these people don't drive, a lot of them still burn electricity and consume goods which are transported by trucks and made in a polluting industry. I always laugh when I hear people in the current election campaign here in Australia talk about reducing carbon emissions by 50% -- what is the point if there are twice as many people polluting by the time it happens?
If anybody was serious about doing anything about climate change, there would be a tax on people who have children, and it would need to be administered globally. Of course, it would never be an election winner, so it's virtually impossible as long as people consider democracy as some kind of virtue, but unless global birth rates are slowed dramatically, everything else is just a waste of time.
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I am clinically insane. I am proud of it.
That is all.