OakvilleBeaver.com: News: Story: We need ‘wise’ taxes to fight climate change

OakvilleBeaver.com: News: Story: We need ‘wise’ taxes to fight climate change

Overview

Prologue and Introduction present my background and how my life experiences have determined my beliefs. Although I have not been raised with any religion, I have been driven by strong moral values, a tireless quest for justice and a desire for repairing the world. This desire, together with my love for nature, form the backbone of my writing. There is a strong emotional bond between my support for the environment and my conviction that pollution is responsible for endangering all life forms. This bond has started in my childhood, when I was helping my grandfather look after the garden and his bees. Then a few years ago, a close relative has battled cancer. This painful experience has prompted me to speak up against pollution. Being also an artist and a poet, I have included my symbolic paintings of mankind’s dark side with their description in verses. These reflect my passion for nature, associated with anger triggered by the damage done to her, and are a manifesto for rescuing the planet.

Part One: Towards a Civilized World is a controversial, yet constructive criticism of western society. Here I discuss current spiritual, social, political and economic matters making the news today, and which are influenced by human mentality and attitude. Resolving the fundamental problems of the world, violent conflict, poverty, and global warming, is not possible without a drastic improvement in human conscience and behavior; it requires a mature global society, prepared to make the necessary sacrifices. The purpose of Part One is to help people become responsible world citizens; it is also intended to prepare the reader for the concrete solutions proposed in the next parts.

Part Two: Saving the Earth contains my general ideas for fighting global warming. The first five chapters present the main objectives for ensuring human sustainability on earth: balanced exchange with nature, eliminating urban sprawl, communal self-sufficiency, renewable energy, and environmentally-friendly transportation. Then, the last five chapters offer unconventional and concrete solutions: developing monorails on highways, reclaiming the desert, space exodus, colonizing the Moon and preserving the Earth as a museum. All objectives are interdependent in an overall effort to preserve our planet for future generations: a “symbiosis of sustainability”.

Part Three: Designing for the Third Millennium is a unique treasure box of environmental projects that show how I have applied my sustainability ideas. The first chapters describe my main accomplishments: the ward-winning Flexhouse, built in Ottawa in 1998 and its current sustainable upgrade FlexSola. My last two offerings are futuristic, yet pragmatic and feasible; Honeycomb Villages is an underground housing concept for reclaiming inhospitable lands, such as hot and cold desert; 3STAR- A Future Space Habitat, as the name implies, resembles a three-pointed star forming an equilateral triangle, with a geodesic globe at each point; each globe encloses a human habitat revolving around a central hub for creating artificial gravity.

Appendix contains relevant newspaper articles and letters to politicians. And finally, the Epilogue concludes that the only way to solve the world’s problems is by eliminating armed conflict and thus freeing the resources required to put and end to poverty and curb global warming.

who can dispute this?

Regardless of the argument between YES vs. No manmade climate change, the fact is that pollution kills living creatures, including humans. The war against global warming includes the war against pollution and the argument becomes irrelevant, because we must win this war in order to survive.