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Thursday, July 28, 2005

Five things I would like to do for the Earth

Thanks to dumbs.blogspot.com for this idea.
Post your list on your own blog, or in the comments section of this post, and make the world a better place to infest.

1. Plant trees on the tops of buildings. Or Windmills. Makes a good use of space, helps consume some of the greenhouse gases being generated by the street level, and camouflages us from alien detection.

2. Car Ferries. Saw this on Amazing Race once. People drive their cars up onto flatbed train cars. Train takes them to whatever metropolitain centre to which they are commuting. Unload cars, cars drive the minimal remaining distance to work. Everybody still has the privacy of their cars, but can now read and listen to their own brand of bad music.

3. Fill the Northwest Territories with Windmills. Enormous one-time cost. Huge diversion benefits for years later.

4. Blow out the middle of all the supermakets. Leave the following sections: produce, meat, dairy, bakery. Everything else is just packaging and cattle feed carbs that make people unhealthy.

5. Market public conscience. Every time you fill up with gas, a nickel goes directly into a fund managed by the Ministry of the Environment which gets paid out to the car manufacturers to bring the price of alternative fuel vehicles down. When you later buy your hybrid car you get to claim a credit on your income tax equal to what you paid into the fund for that tax year. Like unemployment insurance for the car industry.

Please to be discussing!