2010年5月16日 星期日

The story of cap and trade

“These guys don’t seem to realize that the simplest way to keep carbon out of the atmosphere is to leave it safely in the ground”, as a lot of the research show, the main carbon pollution come of the factory. I strongly suggest carbon fee should be introduced, which the company have to pay for the amount of pollutant produce when manufacture a product. By doing so, it will force the designer or company to find method that creates less carbon dioxide. One of the ways is to use material that uses less energy to be manufacture. Another thing is the waste after consume the product, some of them will go to landfill and other will be burn, which creates a lot of carbon dioxide, we should also think of the end of life of the product, such as recycle or reuse of the component of some of the product. I think law should be implementing to force the company to recycle their own product when the product reaches to their end of life

Another ways to reduce carbon dioxide is to educate people. We can talk people to use less private transport by introduce people that do not require fossil fuse as their main energy source, such as bike. By giving people incentive, such as the benefit of health when riding bike help you to do exercise each day , it cost you less transportation fee, this could remove the barriers that people relay on the private transport.