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[Cheonmunka]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=39&objectid=10490612

I think this competes with global warming as somethjing that's gonna f%$# up our planet.

[Hater Depot]

Time to do what Ireland has done and tax plastic bags so people stop using them so freely.

[Zutronius]

[OneWayTraffic]

[thepeel]

Nations need to tax things they don't want and not tax things they do want.

Tax carbon, garbage, excessive consumption, large cars (hell, CARS), plastic bags, trans fats and the rest. Tax road use and encourage high-density urbanization. Build nuclear plants and subway systems with the revenue. Do not tax income (we want people to work). The current way of looking at tax policy is not suitable for modern society.

[riverboy]

Peel. I tend to agree with a lot of your economic ideas, but why the high density urbanization?

[thepeel]

[huffdaddy]

[riverboy]

Sure Suburbia is a huge problem, but I don't think the solution is cramming people together like sardines. It creates too much congestion and loking at Asian nodels, where suburbia is not a problem, I hardaly see any solution to pollution(hey that rhymes).

Now in my opinion, having quasi self sufficient plots of land, where people produce a good deal of their own food and can utilise their own natural resources is a good answer.

I for one could care less to live in a city. Five years in Incheon now and I am here solely for the purpose of going back to Canada with a pocket full of money, so I can sem- retire in the country.

[thepeel]

It doesn't have to be a city like New York, Tokyo or Seoul but could be more like the row houses in parts of New Jersey or Montreal. I don't think that the suburban model is responsible.

In my opinion, we are better off when we live closer to work, food, play, culture, school and each other. The suburban commute is a waste of energy and life. Again, my opinion.

[riverboy]

I agree. I just see a better fix being more of a rural/ small town setting. People should be responsible for producing thier own food and their should be a big push for self sufficient energy solutions like wind power.

I don't see why people should be spending so much time commuting to work these days with the internet. If more professionals were allower to work three days a week at home instead of in the office, there would be a lot less fuel consumption and cogestion.

Give me the country over the city any day of the week.

[thepeel]

[visitorq]

I agree with thepeel. Density is the key to proper urbanization, as is mixed zoning and proper planning of public spaces and integrating mass transit into the fabric of the city (instead of slicing it apart with freeways). Ideally you should be able to live in your apartment, walk or take public transit to work and elsewhere and do all your shopping in your neighborhood.

The problem with suburbs is that they depend on cars and freeways (unsustainable). In the burbs you can`t really walk anywhere, and end up driving to malls (the new `public space`, which isn`t really public) or wallmart etc. to shop. Commute times get longer as people drive more, and more cars clog the roads. To counter this more freeways are built, which takes up even more space, and divides communities. Downtown cores decay as people keep moving into the burbs, gobbling up more and more suburban land, perpetuating the cycle of outward sprawl (the `donut effect`).

[Julius]

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