UK have started phasing out Private Car ownership. When are we following?

 For reasons not unrelated to the

environment, the government of the United Kingdom, have started giving their citizens, transport credit in exchange for their cars, to be crushed.

This effort is in a bid to limit carbon emission.

I know our government knows about carbon emission and global warming. But the question is how far will our government be willing to go and when will they commence? This year, next year or never?

It involves planning. It entails sacrifice.

The first sacrifice is to perish the thought of car ownership as a life long achievement and substituting that with a desire to change the environment. The next thing to do is to upgrade public transportation to a level of more convenience.

This plan worldwide will not eliminate private car ownership totally. Rather it will further make it difficult to acquire. 

For developing countries, it could raise the status of car ownership to the level of acquiring private jets.

I know the rich will like it. Anything to differentiate them from the rest. So be it. Let the extra income go to the government for the upgrade of public transportation.

Doing that could make the people more dependent on government and ip so facto more understanding and critical of government efforts. Unlike today where the tendency is less government and less patriotism as everyone is a mini local government providing everything from water to education and leisure.