"[quote=749er]Are you nuts or what?
As for taxation,if you pollute you should pay to clean it up. Its not my world or yours. Its everyones, and those who follow us should find it in a decent condition."
Whilst this is a sound theory, it does not work on a global scale.
USA, India and China are terrible polluters but they are not going to be paying pollution tax to Europe.
There is a European anti-pollution (recycling) scheme called WEE (
http://www.bsi-global.com/Manufactur...E/Index.xalter) which says that by law anyone making electrical goods must offer a method of retrieving and re-cycling these goods when their life has expired. At no charge.
All well and good, but it has some fundamental flaws: 1) It only applies to Europe 2) Customers will not pay the extra cost this new service will entail 3) The law says European manufacturers must do it, so cheap Asian manufacturers win again.
Until there is some way of ensuring polluters WORLD-WIDE are held to account I don't see any way to counter global warming.
We are not all innocent here in Europe, either. If every country was to use resources at the same rate as Portugal, we would need three planets to support us! (
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/...20061221.shtml)