This month’s British edition of Wired magazine features a collection of articles called ‘Let’s Reboot Britain’, one of which introduces the concept of taxing those who live in the countryside.

Rural lifestyles produce more CO2 per person than urban lifestyles, and as Britain is not urbanizing at the same pace as the rest of the world, maybe a Rural Tax is a good idea?

As the author of the article, PD Smith, summarizes, ‘We tax cigarettes to reflect the harm they do to our health: we need to tax lifestyles that are damaging the health of the planet’.