Acceptable Religion    Part 2

   In the "battle" against climate change, the UK thought of carbon-ration coupons. 

   This would be a second currency, wealth redistribution - buying carbon credits from those less well off. People who have lived in the Soviet Union or China recognize this as totalitarian trickery. 

   In China, food coupons once were used for buying essentials...redistribution while government controlled assets and freedom. A division of environmentalists have the same ideology. 

   The Carbon Sense Coalition of Australia proposes:

• Ban open fires and pot bellied stoves 
• Ban incandescent light bulbs
• Ban bottled water
• Ban private cars in some areas
• Ban plasma TVs
• Ban new airports
• Ban extensions to existing airports
• Ban "standby mode" on appliances
• Ban coal fired power generation
• Ban electric hot water systems
• Ban vacationing by car
• Ban three-day weekends
• Tax babies
• Tax big cars
• Tax supermarket parking areas
• Tax rubbish
• Tax second homes
• Tax second cars
• Tax holiday plane flights
• Tax electricity to subsidise solar power
• Tax showrooms for big cars
• Eco-tax cars entering cities
• Require permits to drive beyond your city limits
• Limit choices in appliances
• Issue carbon credits to every person 
• Dictate fuel efficiency standards
• Find a way to reduce production of methane by Norway's moose
• Remove white lines on roads to make motorists drive more carefully

   This requires growing the size and authority of government, which has a knack for self-preservation and expansion, requiring more funding, even in a democracy.

   We have an idea. Scrap central government altogether, destroy all evidence of modern life and return to the ways of Native Americans. Tribal wars would not include nukes, and pandemics would not discriminate.  

       Jimmy