Gruff, we are only conditioned by years of orthodoxy issued to the commons by dictates and further accepted as norm by the commons, therefore any variance from that establishment seems ludicrous and outlandish but with clearer perspective you should easily see that those in the position of isolation would obviously have personal ownership of transport. I see this as a core problem in formulating law, ie; generalizing law in a blanket approach when there are specifics to be addressed. The cities are congested and most are polluted as well so these are the places that are subjective to end means resolution. Eventually many cities will require vehicles to dock their transport outside and take public transport within as a understandable measure against grid lock, ie, vehicular overcrowding. It is really simple math. Imagine a swimming pool designed to accommodate 200 people but 500 show up and get in the pool; the rest is history. Do you want to take a bath with 499 other people? Same has it for cars! China will fail and they will completely pollute the planet. Their green measures will prove to be insufficient by means of ratio. It is simply a matter of time that the reality of "too much" rears it's ugly head.
However, I will give you credit for your positivism regardless of how shortsighted it is. On Jul 7, 9:09 am, gruff <[email protected]> wrote: > "... On Jul 5, 7:19 pm, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: ..." > > > Lee - Gabbs, We should consider getting away from everyone have > > personal ownership of transport vehicles. There just aren't enough > > roads to accommodate every single person owning a car. The skies are > > full of planes, the oceans full of ships and the roads full of cars. > > Soon we'll be stuck in a global gridlock. > > What???!!! You'd have me ride with the hoi polloi? How utterly > bourgeois. My elitist soul shudders. > > > Millions of people on trains and buses takes millions of cars off the > > road and reduces pollution as well. Now that China has moved from > > bicycles to motor cars I see more gray skies ahead. > > Perhaps not. China is now leading the world in green technology. I > think the dictatorial leaders in China have realized that with 1.2 > billion people, if they behave like the profligate polluters and > wasters in Western society, the world truly would be destroyed. > They've just glommed onto the idea of a free market capitalistic > society and I doubt they are planning on destroying it with pollution. > > We'd better learn how to deal with the Chinese in a respectful way > because it's not going to be very long before they are the #1 economic > power in the world. I believe it was one of the Rothschilds who said > they cared not what military power can do, give them control of the > economy and they will rule the world. (A paraphrasing.)
