Chapter 23: Time To Save The Earth (Good Luck, I'll Be Safe In My Escape Pod)

Welcome, ladies, gentlemen, boys, girls and anything else you may call yourselves, to another segment of the tome of truth. As we all know, as a formality and as a symbol of unity, we have just celebrated earth hour, which is an hour that people have created an entire website just to promote it. Normally, I would say focussing on more efficient activities to save the environment would be a better use of time, but I suppose this 'earth hour' has it's merits, in which we can strenghten a better and more united army to get interested into saving the world. Also, I do not wish to be sued by the people who roganised this and those who would support it.

However, this is not the main topic of this chapter, and so let us move to another topic whereby there is a possiblity of being legally punished by a far more powerful and in my humble opinion, exceedingly scary organisation.

Moving on, esteemed readers, and eyes on the board, students, as I had spoke of more efficient environment saving activities, I would like to highlight the limiting of the number of cars per earthly owner. Now, let us take a certain country and government, who shall both remain unnamed for protective (*cough* of myself *cough*) purposes, they have promoted the option of increasing the COE (Certificate Of Entitlement). Sure, it has become more expensive and thus tougher to own cars, but here is the problem. Because of this, the richer a person is, the more cars he or she can afford. With this, cars have come to be known as symbols of status, particularly in financial terms. Thus, even small, but rich families can own cars, while the poor, who in some cases actually need the car for transport cannot afford one. The electric road tax (ERP) is not helping either. In fact, this is making the problem worse.

Just to show off their statuses, it is possible that some rich families may buy more cars than they need, mainly for the purpose of telling people, 'I can afford to own 12 ferraris, one for each month which I do not really need, so there, despite the fact that I am causing pollution problems to be worse and harming the environment more''. Okay, this may not be exactly true, but perhaps just a miniscule 95% inaccuracy.

In my opinion, I would say, that a good solution, and more practical one, would be to limit the number of cars per owner based on how big their family is and their tranbsport needs, including their careers, not how much money they can afford to waste on cars.

Would this not be better than switching off lights for one hour? Sure, this plan may take a long time to implement, but the results would be long term and great. This plan would be a good investment, and unlike that so called 'earth hour', with the major influence of the government, I am sure this is possible.

Well, look at the time. Almost time for me to switch off the lights for a good ten hours, perhaps equivalent to ten 'earth hours', and this even includes my own personal lights in my concious mind. Good day, and good night everyone. Until the next chapter of the tome of truth.