You are correct. This would be akin to Christians taking over government, and taxing unbelievers or forcing conversions. You know that you'd be opposed to such a thing, yet the exact same thing is being done by forcing emission conversions.
Do you REALLY want to change the climate and make the earth a better place?
- Start a garden to produce your own veggies. You'll eat more veggies and less meat, helping reduce methane emissions. Also, it'll reduce your trips the the grocery (save gas), money, and other benefits. If you live in an apartment or in the city where you cannot have a large garden, convert your basement, or part of a room into a greenhouse. You'd be surprised how much food 16sq ft of area can produce if tended well. +1 if you run such a greenhouse off of solar energy.
- Carpool and really pay attention to where, when, and why, you drive. Don't take useless trips that cost gas and money. Tune your car with proper energy-saving mods.
- If you own or rent your home, look into your energy-consuming devices like your hot water tank, heater, and other devices. If they are old and inefficient, replace them. We replaced our natural gas heater in the apartment complex I own a few years back and literally cut our gas usage in half. We're now remodeling and adding more efficient weatherstripping, insulation, and individual heaters to ensure that tenants are concerned with their electric usage.
- Don't live beyond your means, and invest wisely. Use extra money to fund efforts built on better efficiency, such as a more efficient car, appliances, and lifestyles.
- If you have a yard, plant fruit-bearing trees. This is a one-two punch: More food for you, while the tree converts Co2 emissions into food. If there is leftover veggies from step #1 or fruit from this step, give it away to the poor and needy so they don't have to spend their gas to go to the store.
Those are a few examples. The problem is I see a lot of people in here that are talking about solving global warming by instituting new controls and restrictions on people. I don't get this when some of the same people decry gay marriage bans, abortion restrictions, and other restrictive things, yet promote taxing and attacking oil companies because of their 'evil' (it's the same rhetoric from pro-family groups, just repackaged). If you really cared about the control exerted over people, you'd care about taking personal responsibility for the environment, rather than whine about some foreign government needing to change. Fix the thing yourself. It can be contagious.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
