To reduce pollution, I would refer to the well known three Rs: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Reduce means using fewer resources in the first place. Reuse means using again — my pet hate is water bottles. Why do people need to buy new water bottles every time they have a drink? Recycling should be used as a last resort, as it still takes energy to process the recycled waste. However, it is much better to recycle than to throw away to landfill.
I would incentivise farmers to become organic and only be arable rather than pastoral. Deforestation is the key issue to global warming, forests are huge carbon sinks.
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