The request by PM May to bring down zero CO2 emission to zero is one that should be applauded.
However how to do this is vexed with huge decisions, that will influence the prosperity of all of us.
As a young in mind and spirit ex farmer, I have been trying to resolve this very problem for over 10 years, and thought through many option of carbon taxes and banning polluting products, these may well have to be done, but it is on which basis they should be implemented.
For me,I think the decisions of how we live should remain in the form of a responsible capitalist, where incentives are rewarded for responsible sustainable consumption and development
It is the controls and regulations of how capitalism used and acted upon that is at the center of the debate.
A few years ago, credit was given free reign, and now markets around the world slosh with money, at every level of society with no reference to anything, not even gold, as it used to be.
This huge excess has to stop.
Money is Energy waiting to be unleashed, and when spent, it unleashes this energy in the market place from want,through manufacturing to consumption and waste.
Everything almost ends in waste as pollution in one form or another.
Some call for cyclic consumption, and this is probably part of the solution, but central to this discussion which has so far been avoided by nearly all economists and politicians, is that to maintain a sustainable future everything we do should be based on what's good for nature and all ecosystems.
So I have now arrived at the situation of advocating a simple holistic method of maintaining the advantages of capitalism, with the protections needed for human development and all ecosystems.
This like any radical change from the status quo, will not be an easy deal for anyone to call.
I propose...
Scrap all existing taxes and replace with a single natural resources at source and based on the Eco damage caused by their use and consumption.
This is a carrot and stick method of transferring responsibility directly to consumers and everyone in the chain of supply will soon have change their old ways to make new methods and technologies bear fruit far quicker and without further eco destruction along the way.
I also further suggest that the taxes raised should be high enough to implement UBI and a final Wealth tax at death. Both of which should aim to make everyone more responsible for their own actions, along with changes to health, benefits, pension and education.
This is a fundamental shift in placing Nature central to all of what we do. Food ,entertainment, housing, infrastructure, transport, and so on.
Everything must change, without this change and by implementing single technical fixes will only lead us all into the abyss we are all trying to avoid.
All efforts so far have failed, unless we place draconian population controls onto society which also leads to demographic problems, no solutions to date have any success, indeed the situation is only getting worse.
So please think this through carefully and put the question ...
Is this benefiting nature and all ecosystems?
If the answer is No, then we must think again, and again.
This is not just a British problem but global, and any solution must also be global.
Whatever we choose to do will hurt us, but we will lead the world in climate and fiscal methodology of solving the biggest threat to mankind.
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