The only why to save the environment is for governments to impose strict quotas on the energy we use?

Question

for example by resttricting car ownership,limiting the water use.

Answer 1

yes! and we will put Hitler in charge to carry out the penalty if your laws are broken

Answer 2

With the way we overconsume and overuse energy it seems like that's the only thing that will really help. The problem though, is the governments quotas tend not be be high enough and typically go into effect years latter. We will have to get around that if these quotas are going to work.

Answer 3

No, I believe that the government should allow prices to go up when the resources become scarce.  Lots of people are driving less as a result of higher gasoline prices, for example.  Let's increase the price that we charge for water and electricity (or, at the least, stop subsidizing them) so that people will want to conserve more.

Answer 4

the gov has turned there back on solving a problem they knew was coming 40yrs ago. why let them dictate our usage

Answer 5

The environment is not threatened, but preserved, by industrialisation. It is the poor, non-industrialised nations who destroy their habitat, simply because they don't have enough wealth to regenerate things, refertilise, replant, etc.

The environment is in fine shape in the U.S, England, Australia, Europe, etc. It is in terrible shape in parts of Africa where subsistence farming prevails.

There is no need to go backwards toward a lower standard of living (which is what we by definition do when we use less energy): the earth is very robust, and can take billions of more people (in fact trillions). At present, the entire population of the world (6.5 billion) can be squeezed in to half of the city of Melbourne, Australia.

There is nothing wrong with the environment, nothing at all. And were it not for all this leftist propoganda, no-one would ever think there was. The air in major cities is relatively clean (the way you work this out is by asking yourself whether you consciously cough or have trouble running in the city, or develop respiratory problems), and only a small drive away you can take walks in mountains and forests with almost nobody in site. This goes for almost every city in the world.

There are squirrels in city parks, and possums, and kangaroos on city golf courses. There is an abundance of bird life in cities. There is hygenic living. And the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is only 1/18th of 1%, which means it is almost non-existent.

If all human activity disappeared tommorrow, within a very short period there would be no pollution at all, anywhere.

It is a fallacy to equate using the environment with abusing the environment. All things used bear the signs of use. If I buy some new shoes, I cannot use them without wearing them down. All physical systems are subject to the laws of thermodynamics and run down even just by touching them. If you talk to me and ask for an answer, my body runs down providing that answer, and eventually I die after providing a lot of things in my life. Everything runs down.

God made the earth for man to enjoy, not to worship. And He made things so that they would run down, so that in turn we might store up our treasures in heaven instead. For after you leave your body, you ain't never ever ever ever coming back.

Concentrate on eternity, not the 75 years you have on earth.