Britain To Issue Carbon Credit Cards?
Carbon “credit cards” could be issued as part of a nationwide carbon rationing scheme, Environment Secretary David Miliband has suggested.
An annual allowance would be allocated, with the card being swiped on various items such as travel, energy or food.
Mr Miliband said people who used less than their allowance could sell any surplus to those who wanted more.
A feasibility study says many questions remain on such a plan, but Mr Miliband says “bold thinking” is needed.
Mr Miliband told the Guardian that the scheme had “a simplicity and beauty that would reward carbon thrift”.
Mr Miliband, who commissioned the feasibility study, said the scheme could be working within five years.
Individuals and communities had to be empowered to tackle climate change – “the mass mobilising movement of our age”.
“You cannot just rely on the state,” he said.
All this is well and good, but when will they be handing out credit cards to limit the amount British people and British cows fart? After all, the methane emitted in farts does some 20 times more damage to the environment than carbon emissions according to the United Nations.
Surely the Brits aren’t going to ignore this much more serious sort of emission, are they?
