“The best indication of whether a person truly grasps the scale of the global climate crisis is not whether they drive a hybrid car or offset their flights, nor whether they subscribe to the Ecologist or plan to attach a wind turbine to their house. The most reliable indicator is whether they support carbon rationing.” - Mark Lynas in the New Statesman
UK residents and citizens abroad can now petition the Prime Minister online and make their support known for Carbon Rationing and Contraction and Convergence. Sign up to support the environment and spread the word amongst friends and family.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Adopt Carbon Rationing and Contraction and Convergence.
1. We believe Climate Change is one of the most serious threats to mankind, and to biodiversity on this planet, and that rapid action is required.
2. We believe, we need a global cut in emissions of 60% by 2030, and that this is likely to require a 90% cut in UK emissions by 2030.
3. We believe, the fundamental international framework that can deliver these cuts is Contraction and Convergence. We urge the government to campaign tirelessly at an international level for the adoption of Contraction and Convergence. We believe this approach of sharing emssions fairly per capita worldwide, and a process of aligning all nations to that is vital.
4. We believe that supporting C&C in the UK requires adoption of carbon rationing, with a tradeable ability, not green taxation.
5. We believe, green taxation will alienate much of society and will be unpopular with many of the people whose emissions we seek to lower. Green taxes will hurt poorer people more than the rich. Green taxes will not enforce reductions. Green taxes take away personal choice in how we live our lives.
6. We believe, by implementing carbon rationing with binding targets we can force the country to only use its share, rewarding those who have spare ration, and allowing an element of personal choice in how a person spends their ration.
7. We believe, we must implement rationing with a trading ability as otherwise there will simply be a black market.
8. We believe, carbon rationing can bring personal and business emissions within an overall target and ensure fairness between interests of corporations and citizens.
9. We believe supporting these frameworks we need incentives for energy efficiency in the household, and for the use of renewable energy sources.
10. We believe we need regulation for businesses to drive changes in fuel consumption, energy efficiency, food miles etc.
(Via: Peak Oil & Simpol)
Comments:
Hi,
Just a quick note to say thanks for supporting the petition for Carbon Rationing and C&C.
We’ve still got a few months to go. If you know anyone who might sign, who hasn’t please forward the details on. We have 2400 signatories including: Caroline Lucas MEP, Colin Challen MP, Mark Lynas, Mayer Hillman, and Aubrey Meyer….
thanks. Keep signing and sending out details
Alex
Nice post.
I am firmly in favour of personal carbon trading and believe that the traditional arguments just don’t stack-up.
In fact I recently blogged about this exact thing here: http://tinyurl.com/2scnhk
In short: Personal carbon trading is an idea whose time has come. You can’t expect it to solve problems of inequity which already exist in the world - the rich will always be able to buy themselves a way out, and survive catastrophes better than the poor. That’s the nature of the capitalist society in which we live. But properly run, the scheme would protect the fuel poor, and allow low carbon consumers to make money from the rich.
In fact, the great thing about personal carbon trading is that government sets the outcome - a reduction in carbon - and the ‘price’ rises and falls depending on whether consumers change their behaviour. So the more people simply stick to their lifestyle and buy their way out, the price rises until people think it is better to reduce their carbon use.
Read more here: http://tinyurl.com/2scnhk
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