The Commonwealth of Nations met to discuss a pressing issue: Maintaining biodiversity.
The common theme was to help the environment by eliminating internal combustion vehicles. This would be done to reduce global warming.
“We need to ban gasoline powered cars. It’s that simple,” said one delegate. “I’ve written a plan here that would make it possible to reduce global warming by 2040-2070. We would have an eventual ban on cars, and until then, slowly phase out gas powered cars until then. We’ve got the electric cars available to use, so why not?”
This plan, however, was met with fire from other delegations.
“Remember, kids, banning gasoline powered cars may not be a great idea right now. Electric cars are still sooo expensive right now. If we force everyone to switch to electric cars, then we’ll also lose countless jobs from young people working in gasoline-related jobs.” said the delegate of Pakistan.
“What I’ve got a problem with, is the term ‘eventual ban’ used in this plan,” said the delegate of Ghana. “Bigger countries could easily just phase out gasoline powered cars in less than a few years. Smaller countries may have a more difficult time, however, as we don’t have access to alternative transportation. You can count walking, I guess, but that’s getting less practical by the day.”
The delegate of Lesotho reminded the committee of the fact that there are more forms of pollution than just cars.
“We can’t just focus on cars alone. We need to be aware of trash incinerators, farming, even just everyday actions that happen to release greenhouse gases.”
This idea was expanded upon by the delegate of Rwanda.
“Yes, we had a genocide a while back, but we don’t need another one from global warming. We can impose a universal regulation on greenhouse gases and add a carbon tax worldwide as well. People can keep using their cars, but you’ll have to pay for it.”
Despite all of this, some delegates still questioned the vagueness of certain terms used in proposed agreements.
“I feel that these agreements have too many loopholes that could be exploited if you really got into the nitty-gritty,” said the delegate of Botswana. “We should probably fix that.”
This committee was summed up no better than by one delegate.
“Like I’ve always said, Commonwealth is weird,” said the delegate of Tanzania. “Look, there’s someone trying to prevent the discussion of greenhouse gases. That’s what you just have to get used to in Commonwealth.”
The common theme was to help the environment by eliminating internal combustion vehicles. This would be done to reduce global warming.
“We need to ban gasoline powered cars. It’s that simple,” said one delegate. “I’ve written a plan here that would make it possible to reduce global warming by 2040-2070. We would have an eventual ban on cars, and until then, slowly phase out gas powered cars until then. We’ve got the electric cars available to use, so why not?”
This plan, however, was met with fire from other delegations.
“Remember, kids, banning gasoline powered cars may not be a great idea right now. Electric cars are still sooo expensive right now. If we force everyone to switch to electric cars, then we’ll also lose countless jobs from young people working in gasoline-related jobs.” said the delegate of Pakistan.
“What I’ve got a problem with, is the term ‘eventual ban’ used in this plan,” said the delegate of Ghana. “Bigger countries could easily just phase out gasoline powered cars in less than a few years. Smaller countries may have a more difficult time, however, as we don’t have access to alternative transportation. You can count walking, I guess, but that’s getting less practical by the day.”
The delegate of Lesotho reminded the committee of the fact that there are more forms of pollution than just cars.
“We can’t just focus on cars alone. We need to be aware of trash incinerators, farming, even just everyday actions that happen to release greenhouse gases.”
This idea was expanded upon by the delegate of Rwanda.
“Yes, we had a genocide a while back, but we don’t need another one from global warming. We can impose a universal regulation on greenhouse gases and add a carbon tax worldwide as well. People can keep using their cars, but you’ll have to pay for it.”
Despite all of this, some delegates still questioned the vagueness of certain terms used in proposed agreements.
“I feel that these agreements have too many loopholes that could be exploited if you really got into the nitty-gritty,” said the delegate of Botswana. “We should probably fix that.”
This committee was summed up no better than by one delegate.
“Like I’ve always said, Commonwealth is weird,” said the delegate of Tanzania. “Look, there’s someone trying to prevent the discussion of greenhouse gases. That’s what you just have to get used to in Commonwealth.”