I was reading over the weekend....literature from the Green environmentalists here in Germany. The nation of Germany....contributes something like 2-percent of the CO2 situation on the Earth (well....at least they suggest this to be a fact).
I sat there thinking about this....what we really need to do. Then the idea came to me. If we could just cut 50-percent of the problem out.....we'd remove our 1-percent from the Earth's problem list. So, here is my suggestion:
1. Start retirement for all Germans at age 55.
2. You get a slip at age 54....that on your 55th birthday, we (Germany) are going to resettle you to Namibia. There will be these mega retirement villages created there (100,000 Germans per village, with forty-odd villages around the nation). You get a 2-room cottage, with modest electrical items, and Germany will provide you two boxes of fruit/vegetables and a tea ration each week. No meat....no booze....no beer....no coffee.
3. You aren't allowed any cars or motor-type vehicles (even battery power). You aren't allowed to travel beyond the border. Everyone gets a bike.
4. Free medical care....with Namibian nurses around to help with you with 'care'.
5. Your old home in Germany? It's turned over to younger people.
We would cut 50-percent of this CO2 out real quick, and get old people out of the crappy expensive lifestyle they maintain today. We'd provide plenty of housing for the public.
I think we owe it to the activists.....getting us smart on cutting C02.
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That would require asking the baby boomers to take some responsibility for their actions though, and that's just not acceptable. Society has spent the last four decades transferring the wealth and health of future generations to these special privileged folks. So even though they knew the damage they were causing in the 80's, they decided to do nothing but kick the can down the road for their descendants to deal with, whilst making sure they'll lack the power and franchise to do so. Yay capitalism!
To be honest, this was a fairly cynical essay.
My points stand though. No generation has received more perks and wealth transfer opportunities than the people born between 1946 and 1964.
After each of the world wars (I/II)...there's a change in mindset, individual future, and economics. It's true in the UK, US, France and Germany. The perks though...all started off small, and grew in each decade.
Germans in the 1950s thought it was a big deal to vacation in Italy (by driving down). By 1980s, it was a big deal to fly off to Ibiza or Canary Islands. By 1990s, Thailand was the perk. Today? There are probably 200 hot-spots where people leave out of Frankfurt each day for some exotic vacation. How exactly would any activist group or agenda go and resolve this....other than making it extra expensive?
Here's the root cause of the problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuXzvjBYW8A
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