Would you accept climate change lockdowns?

[Honey12346]

Climate change is a big problem and there has been talk about how lockdown has actually had a positive impact due to lack of flights etc. and how climate change lockdowns might be a thing in the future. Would you comply?

I have not heard this..I doubt it woukd actually happen.

Interesting. I don't know honestly.

I think it would be more a push to change lifestyles but either way yes I would. I'd need to Eg move parents and in laws closer as that would be the essential trips.

It would only work if it included sanctions on buying goods made in China and other high pollutant areas.

I think I would ....but then I think climate change is a much bigger emergency than covid.,I don't think many would. not until it's so obvious it's too late

Not sure about lockdowns but I would definitely accept flight bans, car bans, import bans from highly polluting countries etc. The government definitely needs to take strong action.

I don't know about that, but I was thinking and talking with my ds the other day about positive effect of lockdown in nature.

There are so many over grown trees, bushes and grasses on the side of road. Looks like less cars on the road and less air pollution done a good job. There's definitely more insects in our garden, especially bees. We have more birds coming to our garden. Nature is thriving.

I imagine a dystopian future when today’s pissed off kids are in charge . We will be punished and controlled to make sure as individuals we are Carbon neutral . Cameras in our bins . Meters monitoring our utility output . Yes we can go on holiday on a plane but we have to do some sort of hard labour to produce some green energy afterwards to offset it !!! Haha ok maybe not

@PattyPan how would car bans work for those of us that live rurally and rely on our cars for our jobs? Or do you mean importing cars and going back to making them entirely in our country?

I probably would if it was universal and fair across the board.

No

Covid will look like a light breeze compared to climate change, unfortunately.

@JayAlfredPrufrock

I probably would if it was universal and fair across the board.

Which you can guarantee it will not be.

Exactly

Would people with family abroad get special dispensation? If not, how would that work?

Nope, not a chance. Leaving our homes and socialising does not cause climate change so stopping us doing those things would not help. Sure we should be able to work out ways to travel to see people and to socialise that have less of an impact on the environment but there is absolutely no reason to lock people in their houses to achieve this.

People accepted a pandemic lockdown because it was temporary - unless there’s a credible explanation of why a temporary lockdown would “cure” climate change I would 100% be opposed. The climate will always be susceptible to change and we need to figure out how to live our lives without causing too much change, not stop living our lives.

No I wouldn't.

Nah. Most of the people I know clamouring for this are high earners who have spent the last twenty years flying all over the fucking shop and now want to pay lip service to environmental concerns because people are looking at them.

But I bet you any money as soon as they can find some fucking loophole they'll be off on a plane again. They'd probably like it if it was more expensive too. Keeps the plebs out.

As for the fucking hedgerows, sounds great in theory but hay fever, asthma and other allergy sufferers have had a hell of a time this last fifteen months. And ticks have had a ball. Failing to manage the environment doesn't always lead to happy clappy results.

[quote AlaskaThunderfuckHiiiiiiiii]@PattyPan how would car bans work for those of us that live rurally and rely on our cars for our jobs? Or do you mean importing cars and going back to making them entirely in our country?[/quote]
I was thinking more along the lines of bans on personal petrol/diesel vehicles and car free zones in urban and suburban areas. I think they did car free zones quite successfully in Barcelona. Or something like what they did in Paris(?) where you can only use your car on certain days in the city depending on your reg number. In England only 17% of people live rurally so city and town measures would have a big effect.

@Solasum

Would people with family abroad get special dispensation? If not, how would that work?

Of course not, they're to be punished for not staying local but at the same time told they're not entitled to live near their families if housing has become too expensive or there's no employment besides seasonal, min wage jobs or cost of living is so high compared to wages they have to houseshare forever. If it's a rural place with shite, expensive public transport they are to be punished for running a car (you can cycle, no matter if you live off a windy A-road in northern Scotland where it's dark and wet a lot of the year).

I was thinking more along the lines of bans on personal petrol/diesel vehicles and car free zones in urban and suburban areas.

Yeah, blanket ban on all but the most expensive automobile, which isn't environmentally friendly to create, either, so those in rural areas, where incomes tend to be lower, can be doubly screwed but hey, the enviroment.

It wouldn't work. Everyone is an exception!

@osbertthesyrianhamster

I was thinking more along the lines of bans on personal petrol/diesel vehicles and car free zones in urban and suburban areas.

Yeah, blanket ban on all but the most expensive automobile, which isn't environmentally friendly to create, either, so those in rural areas, where incomes tend to be lower, can be doubly screwed but hey, the enviroment.

Can you read? I said in urban and suburban areas.