08:30:00 am, by Bill O'Connor 
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While the Bush administration was busy issuing gag orders against discussing Global Warming and the declining number of polar bears, the nation of Britain has shown an enourmous amount of common sense and social responsibility by drafting laws that will eventually decrease the national carbon emission by 60% in 2050.
The approach is to incrementally reduce carbon emissions nationally by instituting a carbon budgeting system that is geared towards making behavioral changes in the way the entire population uses and generates the power that is need to run a modern society.
If approved, the population of Great Britain will have to reassess their energy needs, and make adjustments to how and when they use energy in their daily lives to run their vehicles, heat their homes and light their own environment. The first major milestone in the road to 2050, will be a 26 - 32 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2020.
Progress will be measured by committees formed to review the budgeting system annually, and make assessments based on effectiveness of the system. Enforcement still has to be worked out, but most likely will be in the form sanctions determined by the courts.
The language out of Downing Street and the House of Commons is quite strong. Prime Minister Tony Blair called global climate change "the biggest long-term threat facing our world", and expressed his wish that Britain advance it's efforts to become a greener society. Environmental minister David Miliband's outlook was optimistic stating, "It is an environmental contract for future generations."
Government leaders have expressed their desire to enact the proposal into law sometime in 2009. If so, it will be the first time any country has set itself legally binding carbon emission reduction targets.
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