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Gran Bretaña anuncia "la legislación más restrictiva del mundo" sobre emisiones de CO2

Escrito por: petro sobre Jueves, 15 Marzo 2007 @ 12:39 CET

RACIONAMIENTO... ¡ES LA GUERRA!
He leido un articulillo justificando el racionamiento con la lucha contra el cambio climatico:

Wartime rationing policies should be revived in order to stave off catastrophic climate change, a new History & Policy paper published today will argue.

Historian Dr Mark Roodhouse, of the University of York, calls for individual carbon rationing modelled on the experience of the two World Wars, and warns that 'green taxes' will not achieve the dramatic reduction in consumption that is needed.

Dr Roodhouse shows how the current debate about proposals for increased air taxes and individual tradable carbon allowances echoes the debates over rationing policies during and after the First and Second World Wars. Using these past lessons, he argues that consumers should be given an equal ration of carbon points, which can be bought, sold or traded, to spend on fuel, gas and electricity.

Dr Roodhouse said:

"The use of taxes alone to control consumption was rejected in the World Wars, and they would not achieve the quick, dramatic cut in carbon consumption that we need now to avert environmental disaster. Tradable carbon rations would have a real impact, if the public could be persuaded that they are necessary, temporary and fair. The Blitz spirit still plays an important role in popular memory and could be rekindled to rally public support for carbon rationing as one of the necessary measures to combat climate change."

"Just as they do now, politicians and economists in the past debated whether rationing was really necessary or if taxation and other measures could achieve the same ends. They concluded that rationing was the only way to achieve swift and dramatic cuts in consumption without feeding inflation or causing social unrest. Tradable rations were not a feature of the wartime schemes because officials wrongly believed they would have undermined the moral basis for rationing: equality of sacrifice. Tradable carbon rations would improve on this system, preventing the creation of black markets in unused coupons that criminalise normally law-abiding citizens."

Dr Roodhouse sets out an eight-point plan that policymakers need to follow to persuade the public of the need for carbon rationing:

the risk of catastrophic climate change is serious and increasing in severity
climate change poses a grave threat to British society and will have a direct and dramatic impact on our way of life if unchecked
catastrophic climate change can be prevented if the government takes immediate action, implementing a strategy to reduce carbon emissions
a carbon rationing scheme is central to this strategy and without it the strategy will fail
the scheme is a temporary measure during the transition from a high-carbon economy to a low-carbon economy and will eventually be removed
ration levels are fair
the system is administered transparently and fairly; and
evaders are few in number, likely to be detected and liable to stiff penalties if found guilty.

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