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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That's a good point, and pushes even more the fact that we need to be buying locally grown fruit and veg where possible. In my mind there is no excuse for potatoes, onions and apples (just for a start) to be imported into the UK at any point in the year as all of these can be stored successfully to cover the "non harvesting" season. I certainly wont buy potatoes that are not grown in the UK, although sometimes have no choice on other things (we do have a veg box, but that often needs supplementing)
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