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New Rules (proposals of laws that will fix problems)

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Inspired by Bill Maher’s “New Rules” segment of his show, but not as satire. Some satire is perhaps welcome but this is like a serious bug tracker for the real world (not bugs in software apps).

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Consider how all food has a CO₂ footprint and a lot of it is being consumed and then from there it’s metabolised into stored energy (fat). That’s like a waste of stored unused energy. So an emissions price was paid in creating that energy storage where it just remains unspent. Then if they drive a car, they create new emissions without first using the readily available zero emissions lipid energy.

So new rule: no car until the excessive energy reserves stored on the body are depleted. I’m one of them. Living by my own law, I peddle my fat ass around town on a bicycle.

Exceptionally, they can have an EV but it must be charged by man power, such as an exercise bike with a reverse motor to charge the battery. The power plug must be incompatible with charging stations.

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[–] schmorpel 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You know that's fascist, right?

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF 1 points 5 months ago

intolerant to the point to fuel anti-environmentalists.

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF 1 points 5 months ago

mass of fat person ÷ mass of car = probably less than 20%

I think a thin man riding a sports car or oversized loud pick-up truck harms our environment more than a fat PCA (who's too busy to work on her health) who drives her compact at licensed speeds.

Good luck with your own cycling and weight loss. 🙂

[–] OlPatchy2Eyes 1 points 5 months ago
[–] greengnu 0 points 5 months ago

not a very effective solution; also human CO2 is only 1/20th of industrial CO2 emissions.

Bigger benefit would be to gradually drop all subsidies for Fossil fuel production and then gradually add on a larger and larger fossil fuel tax.