TO THE FOUR OF YOU - what are your ideas, please?
Would these help to hold off looming extinction? Covid must the beginning of the nightmare we are sleepwalking into:
- Extend my own (senior) age group fare-free, regional public transport to all age groups.
- Paid for by abandoning Brexit, Metro tram extensions and HS2.
- Phase out diesel buses for electric buses going directly onto the roads and not "bus on rails" trams on rails on roads.
- Put passenger trains back on freight only and, our mothballed Black Country Railway that is only half used - used at the Derby and Worcester ends, only!
- Upgrade the strategic 22 Kms Black Country Cycle-Walk Mudway to encourage its use for fossil fuel free travel - walking, cycling and horse riding.
- Bring back the 1973/4 fuel coupons to cut greenhouse gas emissions, without waiting for all the other 190+ countries to act first. Strictly enforced 60 mph national speed limit to replace the 70 mph, to save fuel. It was cut by 20 mph in 1973 (Marr: 'A History of Modern Britain', p 340)
- Flying only for freight. Redeploy the staff to future proof the nation. 1001 tasks to energise the nation!
- Cutting deadly greenhouse gases means cutting frenetic economic activity. Therefore, the wealthy like me must financially help all the very many that will suffer from loss of jobs. So do what must be done to ensure that no-one suffers financially. And get the solution jobs moving, immediately.
- Do what Sir Jonathon Porritt advises in his new book, 'Hope in Hell: a decade to confront the climate emergency'.
- Do what Sir David Attenborough says and what Greta Thunberg does!
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