EAS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Carbon Tax, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Incandescent Light Bulb
20 Sep 2016
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Improve quality of life (reduce air pollution, diseases) Protect the environment + provide for a life worth living (yourself + more so for your kids) Help fight global warming (and save humanity from itself ) Passenger road transportation: 50% of canada"s ghg emissions. Hybrid cars: cost more energy to produce, contain rare metals that cost more energy to get out of the ground. Don"t use incandescent light bulbs (use fluorescent instead) Replace old appliances (everything older than 15 yrs) Renewable energy: wind, solar, biomass, hydropower, geothermal. We are the worst per capita polluter in the world. We should be setting an example especially on the international stage. India said it would sign a climate change pact when per capita targets are used. Europe takes the lead in fighting global climate change: Phasing out and phasing in certain kinds of energy industries. Supermarkets in germany started charging for plastic bags in 1974 (eco- friendly policies started much earlier in europe)
