[Coral-List] What can SCIENTISTS do??
JKoven at aol.com
JKoven at aol.com
Sun Dec 30 18:33:28 EST 2007
What can everyone do?
1. Improve public transportation and make it cheaper.
If governments understood the threats of climate change, then public
transportation would either be free or close to it so that the choice between driving
and taking a bus or train involved a serious budgetary choice. Billions that
are wasted elsewhere could be diverted to cover the costs, and an increase in
the transportation tax that is now incorporated into state government budgets
for road building, would be necessary. If it is easier and cheaper to take
public transportation, folks will travel that way most of the time.
I live in an area (DC-USA) where metro/subway fares are rising to a level
that competes with the cost of driving and parking. The fees will be highest
for those traveling during rush hours, a sure recipe for an increased number of
cars on the roads and gridlock.
2. Impose higher electric usage rates on office and public buildings that
keep their lights on at night when no one is present and do not reduce thermostat
settings at night. Take a look at the night time view from space images - or
fly at low altitude over your own area. You can see where electricity lights
the sky. Why have a very warm building if few people are there?
Only vast reductions in power usage can change this planet's climate future.
Joan Koven
Astrolabe, Inc.
601 Springloch Road, Silver Spring, MD 20904
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