You would really like the little island I live on. Our Critical Areas Ordinance is being updated as required by the state Growth Management Act.
With a little luck and some good lawyers, we should be able to eliminate the possibility of anyone living within 800 feet of the coastline. Current homeowners won't even be able to repair or maintain their houses. Any when they decay, they will be liable for clean up costs. We're so excited to finally be able to start removing the human vermin from Mother Gaia!

Sadly, there always appears to be a good short term reason why we as humanity cannot work on sensible long term solutions.
I think it's one of the collective flaws of the pervading western mentality - we want it all now and we want it on credit...

The average American is stupid when it comes to this issue, I guess since the average (and majority) politician is, likewise, a total bonehead. I used to try to want to save the Earth, but I've given up...20% can't force the other 80% to do the right thing. We deserve what we get, and we will definitely get it one way or another. Keystone species matter people!! Oh, and humans are NOT the actual top of the chain, although weapons help eleviate that little problem.

Don't worry, in America our industrial production will be going down by 25% in the next 3 years,which is good, it will reduce global warming. You want have the money to buy much gas to drive the polluting Suvs and pick up trucks.

In 1991, Norway became one of the first countries in the world to impose a stiff tax on harmful greenhouse gas emissions. Since then, the country's emissions should have dropped. Instead, they have risen by 15%. Although the tax forced Norway's oil and gas sector to become among the greenest in the world, soaring energy prices led to a boom in offshore production, which in turn boosted overall emissions. So did drivers. Norwegians, who already pay nearly $10 a gallon, took the tax in stride, buying more cars and driving them more. And numerous industries won exemptions from the tax, carrying on unchanged. It wasn't supposed to be this way. By making it more expensive to pollute, carbon taxes should spur companies and individuals to clean up. Norway's sobering experience shows how difficult it is to cut emissions in the real world, where elegant theoretical solutions are complicated by economic changes, entrenched behaviors and political realities. Europe struggled with a similar dilemma as it set up its "cap-and-trade" system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by utilities and heavy industry. Regulators cushioned industry in the early years of the system, giving them little incentive to improve. As a result, emissions have crept up 1% a year since 2005. In the U.S., the Senate voted down cap-and-trade legislation in July, won over by arguments that the system would hurt industry and boost consumer prices. But the measure could be revived, since both presidential candidates support it.