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| Originally Posted by 888heaven [As for taxation,if you pollute you should pay to clean it up]
just like I pay road tax and its all used on the roads get real. |
Your road tax pays for the UKs road building program and more. But it does not cover the cost of repairing the damage done to the environment through global warming whether that be preventative measures or remedial.
eg the cost of building the Thames barrier in todays money £1.4billion
many scientists believe planting trees will not work effectively in refixing carbon, so other methods are being considered, eg storing it in disused oil reservoirs in the North Sea etc
Or to look at another way. The human cost? 300 people died in flooding in Canvey Island in 1953
As Psychlist says, melting ice caps = a greater surface area of water. Add increased ambient temperatures and effectively youhave more water in the atmosphere . effectively a speeding up of the water cycle and more rain through global warming.
Then we have all the damage done by the other pollutants in fuel. Historically, lead, sulphur etc Someone has to pay for it....