Plastic waste in seas/oceans

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The so called old and "dirty" cars tend to be cleaner than new ones when you look at the cradle to grave emmisions for the reasons you have given.

Except the older diesel ones, they visibly spew out diesel particles and soot.  Arguably they need to taken off the road.  But then, the current answer - congestion charges or bans for older diesels - is pretty much directly targeting those who can least afford.  It’s not clever and it’s not right. 



But yeah I ran my last car for over 10 years.  2.0ltr petrol Bora.  Got a Euro 6 diesel now.  I’d say it’s well built and should last even longer than my Bora, but the problem may be if you have a car that suffers ‘technical’ problems, as it gets harder to diagnose and fix some issues.  So far it's run for almost 3 years faultlessly (fingers crossed)


I do think we will see increasing numbers of electric cars on the roads over the next few years.  Still a bit limited in choice, pricey for what you get and the killer for me is range just now.  But for a lot of folks they are going to start ticking boxes.  Exepct them to become a common sight.

Bit more serious: more humans, more polution. Limiting a number of new borns worldwide would get us within a manageable number of people, with more than enough resources and less pollution.

Population, the big white elephant in the room.  It is though the number one issue.