Tax meat like they do cigarettes ...
Really a meat and a coal tax would make sense to capture some of the harm they do to the planet and costs they incur, and encourage the switch to better alternatives.
Tony check out pictures of Kazakhstan's capital.
Astana from 1998 until March 2019, is the capital city of Kazakhstan. In March 2019, it was renamed to Nur-Sultan after the departing Kazakh president, Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Nazarbayev ruled Kazahstan since it's '91 independence until last year. And building the dusty town of Astana into a gleaming capital city -- now named after him -- was a great project of his. Kazakhstan has a lot of mineral wealth.
Most of the buildings were designed by British architect Norman Foster, with a good deal of creativity. This is a weird conspiracy-oriented webpage, but it has pics of a number of strange Astana buildings.
https://vigilantcitizen.com/sinistersites/sinister-sites-astana-khazakhstan/I like the opera house situated within a giant pyramid, with an international conference center right above the opera dome. Kinda cool.
The world's largest tent (size of 10 football fields) is unusual, but at least more related to the Central Asian steppe than a pyramid.
Shanghai is famous for its collection of 21st C buildings. The only problem is they are conceived oand executed without considering the context, so often they clash or are out of scale with their surroundings. One obvious example is a gleaming white curved mall which looks futuristic located right next to an old Buddhist temple. Of course that's the downtown tourist temple, complete with gov't worker fake monks, which itself got a gleaming golden makeover so it looks brand new. Sometimes they get a lot wrong at the same time.
Anyway, check out Astana, Kazahstan photos. I'll probably get to Kazakhstan in 2021.
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