DrCrowTStarwars said:
As for global warming unless we can get China and Mexico to cut down on their carbon footprint there is not a whole lot we can do. That is not to say there are not steps we can take in this country for one i think the government should ban private citizens from owning cars so that people will start using mass transit and there should be limits put on how much electricity each citizen is allowed to use in a day,and meat should be taxed so that people will eat vegetables which have a smaller carbon footprint and are healthier,then if we banned all forms of air travel we would be getting somewhere. All these things can be done by our government right now and they would set an example for the rest of the world to follow. Still being realistic it's both parties that would have a problem with these measures(Don't kid yourself the rich left uses just as much oil as the rich right and it's one reason I don't support either of them)and it would do little to help on a world wide scale unless other countries like China join in and they are unlikely to do this.
The US can and should be the world leader in these things. Marching off to hell because "China's doing it too" isn't a great idea.
Taxing meat to encourage people to eat less of it makes sense on so many different levels it's not even funny. But in America we can't even have our politicians have these discussions, because for some strange reason the Conservative party is required to not believe in environmental science.