If you could get everyone to implement one thing to help the environment, what would you choose and why?
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Stop dropping their trash on the public streets and freeways.
Because it makes such a mess that looks terrible and it ends up in the storm drains and it goes out to the ocean. I live near the coast so I know that this happens all the time. It's destroying our environment.
Charge a .01 per water bottle deposit for each water bottle. The .01 would be refunded when you return the empty. Far too many people are drinking these clear plastic bottles of water and just simply throwing the empties away when they could so easily be recycled. Our town recently had a festival and everywhere you looked there were people walking around drinking them, which was good. There was no where to put the empty bottles except in the regular trash which was sad. I felt they could have set up some type of container for the disposal that would have allowed for easy removal and return to the local recycling station.
Recycle as much as possible rather than using disposables/buying new.
stop using deodrants b'coz it releases CFC which destroys the ozone layer and as such the UV rays are capable of entering the earth and melts the thick ice cover which results in natural calamities like Tsunami,Hurricane,Floods,cyclo... etc.
Switch energy providers to a company that uses energy from a renewable source. This would have little impact on the consumer so it would be really easy to get everyone's buy in, and would have a great impact!
Realisticly, if you want to get everyone to do something, it has to be simple and worth their while.
suicide
I would have people the world over lay pipes, 18ft in dia. and 24 miles long out east to west, to use the wind that would arise in these pipes, due to the rotation of the earth, as power plants so as to not use coal and nuclear plants.
adopt strict emission controls for all vehicles, no matter what the cost
I can't even breath in my city anymore
Turn off the TV, radio and computer one night a week and read a book or play games with friends or family.
Free public transport. Thinking mainly of the UK but it would apply elsewhere.
The UK is a small densely populated country with every town and city snided up with cars particularly in the rush hour. It gets worse all the time and we will reach saturation point. We need to think of a radical solution.
Car use needs to reduce and public transport use needs to increase.
Large up-front investment in public transport that is free to use would persuade people to use it. Congestion and pollution would reduce, improving all of our lives. Less of tax payers money would be needed for road building and maintenance. If no fares are charged there would be savings on administration and travel times would be faster. The system could be highly efficient. We would need to keep it in the public sector or there would be a haemorrhage of funds as in the Private Finance Initiative and the UK railways.
The alternative solution favoured by the present UK government is road charging. It will have to be too expensive for ordinary folk on average salaries or it won’t work. Ordinary folk will be forced on to the expensive and inefficient public transport we have at present. Road building and maintenance will still come out of general taxation.
Those of you that think the private sector is somehow better and more efficient than the public sector. Do keep up. That myth has been exploded.
Those of you that cannot bear to think that anyone might get more out of the system than you. You already pay for lots of things with your taxes that you don’t use: it is how society operates.
They should all adopt TAGP(tm) the reaons should be obvious by now.
I would have every household replace five incandescent bulbs with cfls because that would be the equivilent of taking 20 million cars off the roads.
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stop using things that require dead trees
to safe wild life ,and to stop desertification
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