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Reducing subsidies to oil & gas and meat & dairy industries would help as well. This would result in increased (and more realistic) prices of oil and animal-derived food products. People would then use these with more moderation. You know, closer to what the rest of the world uses. (Even if you exclude the Third World.) The money could then be diverted into areas that would help with energy and food challenges.
I don't have much time right now to comment on the big picture of this issue. I will think more on this. It's been on my own mind lately too.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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