Treehugger has a nice post about carbon trading that made me think about 'carbon quotas'.
I'm fairly convinced that this is something we'll see in the next ten or twenty years. Every household will be given a limit of carbon emissions they can knowingly use, and cars, holidays and heating will come out of that with any extra costs resulting in a fine.
I'm also pretty sure that we'll see a few eBay like websites for trading carbon credits ;-)
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hi duncan
About personal carbon quotas, i dont see how food can be left out of the equation, british food transportation accounts for 3.5% of our total carbone dioxide emissions, about 40% of lorries on britains roads today are involved in producing and distributing food, and most of our fruit and veg is imported by air freight, which is growing rapidly.
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