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What would you give up for the enviroment.
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skadistic
Caomhanach
None. I don't want to save the planet anyway.
GoodEnoughForMe
n.m.s.s.
What rights would I surrender? None! That doesn't mean that we can't help out though.
I'm too lazy to help out though!
I'm too lazy to help out though!
Rights? None. Things? Not much.
Cheap corn. Please eliminate the corn subsidy
Cheap meat. Please price aquifer water as a diminishing resource
Luxury vehicles. Please phase in mileage standards along with penalties for too heavy or inefficient urban vehicles
Cheap suburbs. Please use property taxes for the suburbs that actually pay for the city's cost of supplying their 'essentials'
I would also be willing to pay more taxes to set up sustainable energy systems
Cheap meat. Please price aquifer water as a diminishing resource
Luxury vehicles. Please phase in mileage standards along with penalties for too heavy or inefficient urban vehicles
Cheap suburbs. Please use property taxes for the suburbs that actually pay for the city's cost of supplying their 'essentials'
I would also be willing to pay more taxes to set up sustainable energy systems
George2816
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What rights would you not surrender if you know that you make a big difference in the quality of life on earth?
EdwardTking
Deity
If my employer, the UK government, would be sensible about
providing foot paths, bicycle lanes, public transport, home working
and work bathing; I'd quite happily limit my car driving to once a week.
No, I wouldn't survive in a tent.
I would be content for a return airflight once every two years.
No, I need protein. Happy to be rationed.
I don't have this right at the moment.
Yes, content to be limited to three.
I don't have this right anyway.
Murky
Deity
These aren't right's they are luxuries of the modern world that most people take for granted.
Fifty
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Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill.
Leonel
Breakfast Connoisseur
Air travel and a house. I much prefer traveling by train and houses are far too much work when an apartment does the job just as well.
But a house is an investment. An apartment is a money sink.
Erik Mesoy
Core Tester / Intern
The above aren't "rights", they're "wants".
I'd give up everything except the house and electricity without flinching. I can perfectly well eat bread and grain, bike, have one child, and live in North Armpit, and compensate by communicating with people and reading books on the Internet. Then we can work on sustainable electricity sources.
I'd give up everything except the house and electricity without flinching. I can perfectly well eat bread and grain, bike, have one child, and live in North Armpit, and compensate by communicating with people and reading books on the Internet. Then we can work on sustainable electricity sources.
ohcrapitsnico
Deity
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I chose the easy ones, motor vehicle and children. Just put me in a nice city like Hong Kong or Singapore and I can very easily do without a car.
EconomistBR
King
We all need to consume less, and use the freed up resources to invest on technologies that reduce pollution, simple
I strongly disagree, apartments are better because they are always located on a more relevant part of the town instead in a God-forsaken suburb far away from everything.
I strongly disagree, apartments are better because they are always located on a more relevant part of the town instead in a God-forsaken suburb far away from everything.
There is no way I'm giving up any of those. I'll gladly limit myself (I got a smaller apartment just so I can walk to school and church, instead of drive), and I am willing to pay more for food...
...but I am not willing to let a bureaucrat somewhere tell me where I can and cannot live, or how many kids I can have. I thought this was a libertarian place?
...but I am not willing to let a bureaucrat somewhere tell me where I can and cannot live, or how many kids I can have. I thought this was a libertarian place?
Murky
Deity
Apartment living is generally better for the environment but there are apartment slums that I you could'nt pay me to live in.
Gogf
Indescribable
Seconded. I'll stop using a gasoline car when there is something better to replace it. The day the government tells me it's illegal to drive a car or have children is the day I flee the country.
Waitwait. The *right*? No, no no. Would I support economic incentives for people to live green? Absolutely. Removal of the *right* to not live green? Absolutely not.
Catharsis
catch u on the flip scythe
I think what he meant was that if you are renting a flat/apartment/whatever you want to call it, then you are gaining the right to use a place as shelter, and nothing more; whereas if you are paying off a mortgage on a house, then you are gaining not only the right to use the house as shelter, but also the ownership of that house, eventually, and all the equity and other lovely financial-type words that come with it.
On-topic: I picked the motor car, air travel and children.
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