To some extent. It's a hard problem. As I mentioned originally, it's difficult to get a bunch of non-cooperating people to share things that are collectively owned (like air). People want to move themselves and their stuff around, which pollutes. I genuinely don't know the answer, but there are a lot of things that damage the environment for future generations (who, I agree, are not represented well enough in our decision making). If this is a climate change thing, there's a lot of things to do. If it's a congestion/quality of urban life thing (as I read it), it's a bit of a different discussion.

Here are a few options that would restrict individual choice to reduce air pollution.

- banning air travel more than 3 times per year (turns out propelling giant hunks of metal through the sky releases a lot of CO2)

- insisting all new cars be electric

- banning cars in cities

- limiting the purchase of meat to a low amount per person per week

- a limit on consumptive spending (buying newly manufactured goods) annually