What would you ban tomorrow to address climate change / pollution?

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I would ban:

Glitter
Plastic sequins
Make up and cosmetics in plastic packaging
Toys that come with children's magazines and food boxes
Petrol vehicles
Clearing land for dairy / meat farming

I could go on but it would be a very long list!

That was ages cent!!

And THAT was meant to be a few not ages!!! Sorry!!!

Climate change has to be top priority and then plastics. So for me:
Flying for pleasure, forget this 1 or 2 return flights a year, maybe 1 return flight every 5 years.
Business flights more expensive and have to be justified
Car emission tests during MOT and strict limits.
Better distribution network, so no ICE in lorries/ trucks in cities
No coal or oil power stations
Research alternatives to natural gas in homes - new homes being built should not have a boiler
No A/C, new commercial building should have passive cooling built in

Guess my son won’t be going to school then.

I wouldn’t presume to ban anything. Not arrogant enough to think that I have the right to make decisions about other people’s lives unilaterally.

"But as cloth became mainstream again nappy services would pop up and then banning all together and funding nappy washing services to those who are disabled."

Cloth nappies for fully incontinent adults are enormous and would restrict movement and would be very noticeable. It is not reasonable to subject vulnerable people to that.

Oh meant to add Easter egg packaging. Hate it!! ( anyone know any brands etc that keep to the minimum it'd be great). Forgot aerosols too

There's a lot that I'd like to ban but understand the general public would freak out. Things I think could be quite easily banned:

Disposable Wipes
Disposable Nappies
Disposable san pro
Packaging on fruit and veg (but capping the cost with the supermarkets as my local greengrocer is about 2 x the cost)
I'd tax heavily for more than 1 return flight a year
4x4 cars that are not used by farmers etc
Plastic tat toys from Mcdonalds etc (although my DD went a few weeks ago and was given a colouring book so maybe that is changing)

Factory farming.
More than one car per household.
plastic packaging

Oh god, Easter egg packaging, yes!

Oh I’d ban 4x4s unless you live in the countryside

Bans do work CFCs for example.

Even charge on plastic bags has had a big effect

It can be a good idea

I'd make all flights economy seating only, and ban airport lounges, taking the comfort out of air travel would soon make businesses adopt virtual meetings and conferences. I'd also remove any subsidies and tax breaks for flights and add a realistic carbon tax that reflects the damage.
I'd reform land ownership to ban sporting estates and would reforest Britain's uplands, we need this for carbon capture and flood prevention.
I'd put tourist taxes up in certain places, visitor numbers are ruining some city centres.

I'd love community kitchens as mentioned by a PP, nearing the end of the school holidays here, fed up of all the extra snacks and lunches, would be good for old people too!

Banning individual kitchens seems a bit much though! What about allergies etc. My kitchen is nut free. I’m not sharing cooking facilities with the whole neighbourhood!

Also not sure how the banning private cars would work in yeh country.

commuting when your job could be done effectively from home.

A lot of people (including myself) are driving to offices, and doing work that could be done remotely.

I honestly think that if everyone who could, worked from home, it would have quite a big effect on traffic which has to be a positive!

Loads of these seem to be just 'things that don't affect me or I can afford to change' .

People suggesting a total ban on wipes have probably never had to deal with total incontinence in adults. My friend works with patients with serious continence problems everyday and a ban on wipes would be a nightmare. Carers use plastic aprons, single use gloves and wipes- I wouldn't particularly want to do these jobs without them.

I think in theory banning wipes and nappies and disposable stuff is great, but like battle has just said its actually probably going to make many peoples lives more difficult.

And I do understand the argument of "oh we coped in the old days with cloth nappies and no wipes" but whilst that is true, most mothers were at home in the old days and had all the time in the world to wash and peg out nappies. I certainly wouldn't want to be faffing with that on my weekends off. I imagine most people suffering with issues like that mentioned above really bloody suffered in the "old days" and I certainly don't think we should be wanting to go back to that.

All the no disposable nappies ( and even the faff of certain nappies only and only on prescription) no wipes, no single use plastics no cars, one car per household etc massively disproportionately effects vulnerable members of society.

These cafes need to be everywhere.

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Cars that are not efficient.

I'd work on changing how we all live. As it stands most people need a car. We need integrated transport, work from home as a default option, a move away from out-of-town development. We also need to stop building housing estates with no facilities. I grew up being able to walk to shops that sold 80% of what we needed, buses we're frequent and went to lots of local towns. If I lived in the same place now I couldn't do either.

Poor women, women who have to work 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet, disabled women will be most affected.

Meanwhile the actual problem is that people don't want to pay taxes to install critical infrastructure such as sewage and waste disposal systems, because they think it smacks of Socialism.

I agree public transport needs to be cheaper to encourage more people to use it, but honestly, even if it was £1 a ride, the Arriva buses round here rarely run on time and sometimes don't bother turning up at all. It's just really stressful if you need to be somewhere for a specific time and the buses are such a gamble. The whole thing needs changes

Btw I'm saying I would in a hypothetical situation ban wipes nappies etc, in rl obviously theres not much that's black or white. Things sounded so much more difficult years ago, but it's convenience that is killing everything. In Ireland the few things that the govt did right were getting rid of single use plastic bags and banning coal in Dublin. People had to change their thinking to get used to it, but some of the suggestions here aren't just about getting used to them.

business flights - skype only unless absolutely essential
leisure flights - 1 x per year max
cryptocurrency mining
cloud storage above a maximum limit necessary for personal use/different limit for business use
spam emails
non renewable energy
single use plastics
disposable nappies and sanitary towels
black plastic meat trays/flower pots etc

I'm really not sure why anyone is getting hung up on glitter though. The amounts used are miniscule.

And if we're talking about positive action too as well as bans:

solar panels and top spec insulation on all newbuild homes
decent incentives to retrofit solar panels
minimum quota of trees/green space in all new build developments.
significant investment in reforesting the available areas of countryside in this country (not paying other countries to plant trees)
heavy taxes on 2nd/3rd/4th cars
incentives for electric/hybrid cars