how far would this stem global warming/environmental catastrophe?

Question

For aeropane travel to be limited to once per year and car/bike/public transport use to a limited number of miles per week?
If this hapenned in every country, how effective would it be?

Answer 1

Its a good idea but it would be hard to regulate. I would like to see some kind of fossil fuel rationing but until we have more cooperation between countries (and oil producing countries in particular) it will be very hard to bring about.

We do have to do something and something rather extreme to save our beautiful planet and our one shared atmosphere. Ideas like yours have merit but political cooperation is important to make it happen.

I disagree with AusBound - planes DO pollute. It all counts and we have to find a way to reduce everything that pollutes. People always want to point the finger at someone else - car drivers say its industry, industry says its doing all it can and for some reason the airline industry gets overlooked as a major polluter but I would challenge that.

And for the record, I do put my money where my mouth is - I ride a bicycle (to work, for shopping and to visit).

Answer 2

We need to go farther than your proposal here, I believe that everybody should make NO airplane or auto trips at all. People should not be traveling anywhere. The way to stop this crisis is to genetically engineer every human being so they produce chlorophyl and adopt photosynthesis as a way of life. The entire population of the world could be kept in pots not going anywhere and fertilized with global warming propaganda. Since our brains produce greenhouse gasses, we would of course give up thinking as well.

Answer 3

not particularly . Transport only contributes 11% of the problem.

BUT anything is better than nothing

Answer 4

Sure. Let's ban all business travel.

That would be good for the world's economies.

Answer 5

It would make more sense to work closer to where we live.
Millions of people commute every day. If we all lived nearer our work, travel would not be so polluting - Back to the village culture folks.

Answer 6

It doesn't sound like a reasonable request to limit air travel to once per year. Environmentally, airplanes and air travel are not the major contributors to pollution, cars and personal transport are. If you could limit people to a certain number of miles per week it would have an impact, but how would you implement something like that, it would be a political and legal nightmare.