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Carbon costs should be included in the retail price of products and services
Current version: 08 Dec 2009 | 16:43 | nadia999
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No, because... REAL INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IS AN ESSENTIAL ISSUE
Simply because it requires a lot of international cooperation which is not necessarily going to be easy and may well lead to some buy passing the system in order to sell their goods cheaper does not mean that it should not be tried.
International cooperation is a good thing and it would be deepened with the inclusion of carbon costs in the retail price. There would most likely be an organisation created specifically to set how much extra should be paid for each product at each stage of the process. Cooperation would be needed to set prices and to make sure that everyone actually paid for the carbon produced. An organisation would be even more necessary to ensure that the money gained from the higher price goes on reducing CO2 emissions rather than simply on making more emissions. Essentially there is some need for international policing as well.
Children are already told early on to care for the environment. messages like : do not litter, keep defense/Karachi clean keep defense/Karachi green etc are spangled everywhere.
Children are not buying and riding around in their private jets or carbon friendly vehicles or eating processed meat; at least not of their own accord. It's the grownups that really need to be told not children.
When children are told(at home and through the media) that it's okay/civilised/col/kewl/elitist/a-privilege to ride around in a big fancy polluting car rather than a hybrid and to travel in a private jet or airplane/aeroplane rather than by train then it does not matter what they are taught in schools/temples.
The vital way of engaging the entire globe towards the fight against the Climate change is through genuinely involving the international community not only in rhetoric but in substantial mitigation and adaptation measures.Each and every person is to consider own contribution towards the same.
As the developing Nations strive to put their points across to the developed nations about their need to bear the costs, strategically learning institutions are starting points of awareness raising on Climate change. The learners should then be set for Objectives in the learning syllabi about the Climate change issue . 'TEACH A CHILD A GOOD THING AND HE WILL NOT DEPART FROM IT ....'
On school related materials , there should be the message of ' CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL,MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE.' Messages to the churches/temples/mosques/synagogues etc should bear similar content.