Socialist solution to global warming

You know what I'm getting fed up with? Environmentalists going on about how we should turn things off at the wall instead of leaving things on standby. OK good advice for saving power, but this won't reduce carbon emissions, it will slow them a tiny bit. In France which is 90% nuclear powered it will do bugger all. We need real solutions, and less of being told how to live our daily lives.

Petty bourgeois small-mindedness will only lure people into a false sense of security. What we need is global action, organised by the majority and not the capitalists who organise only for profit, based around a series of X-year plans.

The following ideas and timescales I believe are conservative - and much better results I would expect would be the reality under effective socialist planning.

1 year plan - Reduce number of aircraft in the skies, increase the cost of jet-fuel. Until more viable non-carbon solution can be found.

1 year plan - Destroy wasteful lighting. Zero light should be leaked into the sky.

1 year plan - Mass produce bicycles and make them freely available (on mass) at places like train stations, areas of public transport etc, industrial, commercial and residential areas. This will massively cut down on carbon emissions and increase the health of the population.

2 year plan - Increase the size and capacity of the rail network, get all freight back onto the railways and off the roads.

2 year plan - All trains to be electrically powered.

2 year plan - Improve development of electric powered cars and subsidise cost.

2 year plan - Increase price of carbon-burning cars. In Europe they're certainly not needed in most cases and short-range electric cars can cover most journeys to work, while bicycles can cover short and trains long.

2 year plan - Develop new and faster passenger trains that can compete on time scale with aircraft on small trips. London to Paris in an hour sounds good to me.

5 year plan - Relocation of work closer to people's houses and expand use of the internet to save people travelling to work at all.

5 year plan - Shut down all fossil fuel power stations and start a massive program of construction of nuclear, wind, solar and tidal power generators to handle increase of electric usage by trains, shipping, consumer electronics, etc.

5 year plan - All major shipping to be nuclear powered or powered by electric batteries assuming efficient enough batteries can be developed.

10 year plan - Massive funding to develop and use nuclear fusion energy, to replace nuclear fission power within 10 years of successful development of first viable fusion reactor.

50 year plan - construction of a space tower.

Environmentalists seem happy with levelling current emissions, this is unacceptable to the planet - and to the capitalists (levelling emissions would impact profits). What we need to do is smash the capitalists and give the environmentalists a realistic program to deal with climate change, none of this small-minded pussy footing around like they're doing at the moment.

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5 comments

Comment from: Hjalmar [Visitor]
Don't forget fuelcells that are powered by hydrogen and oxygen!
7th June 2006 @ 18:16
Comment from: Achillies [Visitor]
Nice Paul, you must have some restless nights thinking of this stuff.
11th June 2006 @ 03:14
Comment from: Bullshit [Visitor]
What a pile of bull..
16th June 2006 @ 00:02
Comment from: Ibbeep [Visitor]
You know if we just chopped down more trees we could make roads straiter. This would reduce the amount of miles traveled by commuters and ultimatly help the enviorment. Then we should ban women in the workplace. Lets keep them at home so we can get all the women off the roads and reduce those emmissions. *sarcasm*
29th June 2006 @ 20:09
Comment from: D-Bar [Visitor]
You have some really good ideas there! I only disagree with one of them. I don't think giving free bikes to commuters is a good idea. Here in Europe the roads are so dangerous that I think that increasing the amount of bicyclists is only going to make the roads less safe for everyone. I think that better city planning and land use is the key. Usually all the big stores like Kaufland or what have you are located like in the middle of nowhere, where the only method of getting to them is by car. In the USA, you could also reduce commuting by getting rid of zoning laws, so people could open up let's say a food store in their house. Also, building more multi-function buildings would help, where people would be able to live, work, shop, play, etc. Decentralisation is the key here.
8th September 2007 @ 20:26

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