do you think all cars,trucks,plaines and other carbon emmitting modes of transport will have to banned?

Question

personally i think they should all be banned in order to save the enviroment we live in. do you agree? what are your suggestions to stop the destruction of the planet?

Answer 1

Ok...I can understand if cars and trucks are banned and everyone is encouraged to take the public transport system. But planes? How do sick people travel to other places quickly to get their treatment? How do I go see my brother who lives half way across the world? Go by ship and travel on it for a month? You got to be kidding me. First, clean up your own backyard and dispose your waste properly as per the guidelines given and no cheating on that. Quit the fireworks. Make all industries emitting smoke and poisonous gas into nature find an environment friendly way of producing whatever they are producing. Learn to shut off power wherever you don't use it. Learn to save water also. Use recycled paper bags or your own bag at the grocery store instead of plastic bags given to you....do all of those things first. Gosh! Banning every mode of transport? No way! Maybe like Singapore, for every vehicle made obsolete, a new car is issued on the roads and no more..maybe that would work for not increasing the vehicles on the road.

Answer 2

The American culture is based upon petroleum. Wars are made because of petroleum. Because of such, USA did not sign the Kyoto Protocol. There is a strong petroleum lobby which will not allow other sources of energy to take over and endanger the wealth these lobbies hold in monopoly.
There are alternatives for your worries, but the humans are more preoccupied by selfish motives, rather than thinking of the consequences and their children. Environmental conciousness is progressing slowly and perhaps by the end of this century things might take a better slope.
On the other hand, who cares? We have to get used to artificial food and sterile, claustrophobic conditions. This planet is doomed anyway, either by some commet or the sun itself. Our destiny is to either shift the orbit of Earth, like a one big spaceship or galaxial complex lifeform, or move to some nearby planet or moon, like "Europe" is. One more alternative is to pray and hope. If God won't open the sky, some smart galaxials would, eventually.

Answer 3

well, it depends on how we ropulse these forms of transport and if we can produce the energy thay consume in a enviromentally frendly way. for exemple, carbohydrogen fuels will always be harmfull for the enviroment sinds when released in the atmosphere thay increse the acid rain and global warming effects and air pollution in overall, but say we could put up enough renewable energy sources like windmills and solar pannels or wave turbines, than there would be sufficient electricity availeble to produce hydrogen trough eloctrolyses and when this is uses as a fuel or in a fuel cell engine, the only emission will be water, right. you will still keep the problen of roads, noise, treffic jams and so on, but i believe that was not the source of the question.

Answer 4

Planes should only be used on a priority basis and certainly rationed for holidays.
Half the trucks in use today are moving air.
The electricity industry's carbon usage could be reduced by 15% if it improved its power factor and voltage leakage.
The water industry could half the cost caused by first leaking it and the pumping out that leakage.

But really we are we told to do somersaults to save a penny when industry is waisting pounds in pursuit of profit over that margin that existed prior to selling off the facilities.
Government caused it. Government should correct it.
Who out there is going to carry this banner and get real climate savings??
Stop rattling on about light bulbs when the cause that is a thousand times bigger is not being addressed.

Answer 5

cars & trucks don't need to be carbon emmiting, there are plenty of viable technologies available that can be fueled by renewable energy. see film "who killed the electric car" www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com.

But our media don't mention them so most people are ignorant, eg why drive a 250mph jet car when there is a british team with an electric car that should do 350-400mph if they can find sponsors http://www.bluebird-electric.net/
or any reports on the Tesla sports car built by Lotus Norfolk UK? (only on R4 business news) http://evuk.co.uk/news/index4.html#Tesla_Roadster_launch


Alternative transport like animals & bikes also produce methane, a more potent greenhouse gas than Co2.

All fossil fuel transport will be too expensive in 10-20 years anyway, see Hubbards peak oil curve.

The problem is that instead of working together for a soft landing to enable a viable human civilisation to continue; humans are collectivly exacerbating the situation by overconsumption of non-renewable resources, not just in transport.

Answer 6

There's obviously no way you could outright ban every mode of transport. What should and in time may be banned is the fuel that's used in our current modes of transport.

I think what needs to happen is mass production of vehicles using some of the many cleaner and less polluting fuels that have proven effective and gradually phase out the old carbon emitting ones.

Answer 7

No I don't but they are likely to be replaced by other better, more environmentally friendly types of transport. Then it will be up to the individual or company to make a choice - the old expensive and dirty way or the new cheap clean way. It has happened before - no one forced people to replace horses with cars, but the benefits of the car were perceived to be greater and thus, people made the switch.

If you can find a way of breaking down water into hydrogen and oxygen, you will solve the energy crisis and the environmental crisis in a single stroke.

Answer 8

Oil will start getting short within 30 years and some decisions will need to be made about what are 'essential' uses of it are as prices rise.
Personally, I think that electric vehicles will become the norm within 20 years anyway - they are much more efficient (and if the electricity is generated by sustainable means then they are emission-free too).

There is no political will to ban the internal combustion engine - it will start to disappear for social and economic reasons instead.

Answer 9

I believe that if we carry on with all this Eco-friendly stuff, the situation will spiral out of control. Some things we have no control over, e.g the single biggest source of heat, light and radiation called the sun.
Cows and sheep are also being blamed, and before long i guess we will have to stop breathing.
However wouldn't cutting carbon emissions to an extreme end up killing plants?

Answer 10

Go hug a tree! How then do you suggest i would get to work? i mean i only live 68 miles from my office, how do you get about - walk everywhere? I very much doubt it!What do you actually know about the environment? Oh let me guess - those cute little 300 ton trees are in danger of extinction, well in a sustainable forest , every tree that's felled 4 more are planted. The only way to save this planet is to stop self important people like you MOANING!