The first car appeared on British roads in 1888. By the year 2000 there may be as many as 29 million vehicles on British roads. Alternative forms of transport should be encouraged and international laws introduced to control car ownership and use. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

While car ownership provides significant convenience, the

resultant

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resulting

carbon footprint is very significant. Of late, the awareness of the impact of climate change to our civilization is on the rise which has increased the much needed attention to the risk of fossil fuelled motors. While countries and cities with high population density have been able to bring in

fair amount

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a fair amount

of public transport, the success with public transport is not as high in remote areas. The success with car pooling is

also

very limited. Access to relatively cheaper and reliable fossil fuel has

detered

try to prevent; show opposition to

deterred

the initiative.

Also most

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Also, most

governments are

reluctunt

unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom

reluctant

to push the large petrochemical corporations & car manufacturing companies to deliver cleaner technologies. Electric cars are gaining momentum and expected that they will hold a significantly higher proportion of

automotive industry

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the automotive industry

. The encouragement to these companies leave more to be desired. In conclusion, it is important that

legislative

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legislators

branches do enough to drive cleaner technologies and investment in climate will yield significant returns than letting the status quo hurt our climate efforts.