Government Should Step in and...?

Question

The government should really step in and help pollution in major cities!

They should install solar panels on EVERY building.

I mean, face it, major cities like NYC use up SO much energy. Probably more than 100 towns. Maybe I'm going overboard with that number.

What else should the government do to help cut costs and help the environment?

It's up to you!

Answer 1

It would be a huge step in the right direction to start to do something. The problem is, as you notice if you start reading peoples Q+A , that people, such as yourself, come up with a solution but everybody shoots it down and no one has a solution but only  tell's  you why it cant work. I think it is a great idea to put solar panels on the roofs of buildings, there a millions of little things that could be done, like more efficient street lights, a better public transport system in cities, and  wind generators, and more wave generated power. (By the way, that would not be a hazard to shipping because it would not be built in major shipping lanes, would be marked on charts, lit up at night and also would stand out on radar. if a ship hit it then they should probably not be at sea.)

  No one would go for this but imagine that there was a law that said you could not have a car over 3 meters long with a maximum of 900 cc, it would save billions of gallons of fuel, free up space on the roads and be easier to park in the citys. do we really need to go to the mall in a hummer?

And here is another one that they would not go for. Not to pump drinking water to the house. If you want drinking water you either filter it yourself or buy it in bottles. Billions of gallons of drinking water are flushed down the toilet and let out of the bath every day. I am not suggesting that it is a waste of drinking water, I think it is a waste of energy to process it, pump it to the house and then to wash in it when for a fraction of the cost we could wash in water that is not suitable for drinking, I mean lets face it how often do you drink your own bath water...?

   There are hundreds of ways that would make a huge difference, I admit that the car one may seem a bit extreme but so is the condition of the environment, and someone has to do something.....and soon.

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Answer 2

It's not the government's job to tell people how to run their lives. Forcing people to be environmentally conscious- forcing solar panels on their roof and invading their life in other ways- would inhibit their freedoms. If people or companies want to be environmentally friendly, that's fine, but it's not the government's job to force them to do something.

Answer 3

Solar panels, hybrid cars etc. all look nice and envriromental friendly at the first glance, but producing these objects is at the cost of a lot of pollution by itself, it is said more per kWh or mile traveled.... Using windmills to generate electricity takes 500 tons of concrete for the base of each mill, which also generates a lot of green house gasses.  Am not sure if these constrains apply to wave generated electricity, in The Netherlands a wave energy electricity generating project will be launched in the coming years, but these kind of project located in the sea can be a hazard to shipping, and requires a lot of complex engineering, so costs a very high.  So using energy saving measures may help a bit, alas those energy efficient lamps are also produced at a higher enviromental cost than the normal lamps.... Maybe we should build houses so that no airconditioning is needed when the weather is hot, is has been done but I think one would need more space than available in crowded cities.

Answer 4

Do you have any type of common sense? When you put government into a solution they become the problem. The way you want to go about it is to turn a free country into a communist country. If you want to have government be a solution then they should stay out of it or give insentives for businesses to take care of the global warming, which really is a big scam. Oh to all you greenies out there before you blow your top by reading this, how old is the earth and  what happen to the glaciers that covered most of the the northern hemisphere when we had the last ice age, Wasn't that global warming?

Answer 5

I think that they should enforce laws restricting the use of water, greenhouse gases, and electricity.... they should make every car a hybrid and do everything possible to protect the environment!