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!

Chainsaws

Getting to grips with climate change means there will be some unpleasant changes for everyone, which will adversely affect some groups more than others. Conversations need to be had to minimise those effects but the changes have to happen.

Strict car emission test on the MOT, which will affect the poorer most as they are more likely to have older cars/ not be able to afford newer.

Not using any fossil fuel power stations - electricity will be more expensive and there will be times the country will not make enough.

Taxing aviation fuel needs to be global, planes can just fuel up in Europe or elsewhere. No one needs to fly on holiday, we have probably lived through the golden age of travel that is no longer viable.

The biggest one is population, how can this be reduced in a humanitarian / ethical way? If it isn’t tackled, climate change will tackle in with food and water shortages, in worse case leading to famine, mass migration and wars.

This reads more bleak that I think it could be, but everyone needs to be realistic and accept that we will probably have a lower standard of life in the future.

I'd start with large cars (you don't need a 4x4 for the north face of the Kings Road), single use plastic, and close down Ryanair with no planes allowed to take their place.

I often hear people say " I might as well fly because the plane is going there anyway", low cost airlines run on such a tight margin that it only takes a few empty seats to seriously dent their profits, so, in this case, a few people refusing to fly could have a big effect if routes are dropped, especially with the pound dropping and potentially cutting people's travel budgets.

Hypocrisy, people who talk about climate change often very loudly and then jump in their massive cars or on a plane.

Plastic bags
Plastic bottles of water
“Disposable”nappies
Wet wipes
Bleach

It would be very interesting were the government here and in Europe to ban flying - not that this will happen in my lifetime.
Presumably there would be reopening of shipyards and many people’s holidays would be very different.

Almost all air travel.
Petrol & diesel cars. There would need to be lots of public transport available.
I would limit how many new clothes items people could purchase annually.
I would limit how often people could buy new cars, sofas, mattresses, TVs, phones, computers.

Fossil fuels
Destruction of existing natural habitats for new construction projects.
Primark and disposable fashion

Single use straws.

Multi packs of cans etc, every supermarket in the land has a till that is capable of offering discounts when people buy more than one so zero need to wrap cans, bottles etc in a layer of hard to recycle plastic to facilitate this.

Plastic bottled drinks. Lots more water fountains and alumunium or glass bottled drinks. Like batteries, any shop that sells plastic bottles or packaging must offer recycling facilities to take it back.

We also need proper neighbourhood recycling facilities. I don't want to have you drive my recycling to a town I rarely visit.

Shops must be banned from offering bags as standard. I'm still having to repeatedly say 'no thank you' to Mrs Doylesque shop assistants who insist I must have a bag when I have my own reusable ones.

Gift sets. Wrapping standard toiletries in unnecessary packaging is not a gift.

Eleventy million twisty ties and other bits of crap when you buy just about anything.

Private cars, ban them NOW!

@Dapplegrey,. new airships are being tested, I think if jet travel is made more expensive airships will suddenly start to appear again. I'd be happy to take 24 hours to cross the Atlantic. Ships are horrendously polluting due to the massive diesel engines, they'd have to be powered by something else.

bitcoin/cryptocurrencies

Lights being on in shops and businesses when they’re closed.

Air con should be solar powered.

Fast fashion. No more bloody Asos, Boohoo, ISawItFirst, OhPolly, Missguided, PrettyLittleThing, etc...

Cheap tat that people wear once then goes straight to landfill, and is keeping Bangladeshi women enslaved at the same time. Watch The True Cost on Netflix.

The prospect of airships sounds interesting.

the kind of food that is hairy, has four legs and eats grass

Haggis!

Gift sets. Wrapping standard toiletries in unnecessary packaging is not a gift

Oh yes. I bought a set of something once and it came with so much plastic I have never bought from them again.

Don't know if it's already been said but cheap pregnancy tests. Make them almost prohibitively expensive so you only buy one when you actually think you are more than three minutes pregnant.

One woman here showed a photo of a massive pile of them once. All that PLASTIC.

And piss...

Imports from china

Plastic film bottle labels. This stops bottles from being recyclable until it's removed. What's wrong with a paper label or printing directly onto the bottle?