And when you’ve done that, fuck off again.
Climate change could be tackled with the help of a World War II-style rationing of petrol, meat and the energy people use in their homes, UK scientists say.
They claim that this would help countries to slash their greenhouse gas emissions ‘rapidly and fairly’.
Researchers from the University of Leeds also said that governments could restrict the number of long-haul flights people make in a year or ‘limit the amount of petrol one can buy in a month’.
This is all about control. It’s about stopping us moving about and eating what we want. The proles will do as they are told and like it and be happy.
The experts also made a comparison with the need to limit certain goods as they grew scarce in the 1940s, adding that trying to achieve this by raising taxes was rejected at the time because ‘the impact of tax rises would be slow and inequitable’.
We aren’t living in the 1940s. There is no need to limit anything.
But rationing in Britain during the war was widely accepted, the authors wrote in their paper.
‘As long as there was scarcity, rationing was accepted, even welcomed or demanded,’ they said.
Yeah, we were at war, fighting for our very survival, convoys of supplies were being sunk in the Atlantic. This is not the case now, so fuck off.
Lead author Dr Nathan Wood, who is now a postdoctoral fellow at Utrecht University’s Fair Energy Consortium, said: ‘The concept of rationing could help, not only in the mitigation of climate change, but also in reference to a variety of other social and political issues – such as the current energy crisis.’
It will have no effect on climate change, which will change anyway, but it will make people poorer and cause them to suffer. So, fuck off you hideous authoritarians.
The researchers add: ‘Rationing is often seen as unattractive, and therefore not a viable option for policy-makers.
‘It is important to highlight the fact that this was not the case for many of those who had experienced rationing.
‘It is important to emphasise the difference between rationing itself and the scarcity that rationing was a response to.
There is no case for rationing. None whatsoever.
The problem with rationing energy, meat and petrol, the researchers point out, is that people might not be as willing to accept it as they would if resources were scarce, because they know there is an ‘abundance of resources available’.
Which is why there is absolutely no case for rationing.
‘Currently, those living in energy poverty cannot use anywhere near their fair share of energy supply, whereas the richest in society are free to use as much energy as they can afford.’
Scratch a green see red underneath.
No comments on this one. There’s a surprise.
“…the current energy crisis.”
There wouldn’t be a current energy crisis if it hadn’t been caused deliberately by the interfering politicians who are being lead by their noses by the climate change alarmists.
Does anyone believe that if Rationing were implemented The Powers That Be wouldn’t be affected?
Private jet transport to Davos. Nancy Pelosi having her hair done during Lockdown. Boris Johnson having cake – only exposed by people out to get him. ZIL lanes.
You could write history as the story of Elites avoiding the strictures on their minions.
Better get a better public transport sorted. Limit petrol and workers won’t be able to get to work. I work in care industry and agency staff travel 40 or 50 miles for shifts. Care in the community consumes gallons of petrol. In rural areas you need private transport, therefore, you need fuel.
The owners of our companies won’t get rich if we can’t get to work.
The biggest trouble is we are a small country, whatever we do is so little against larger countries that create more pollution.
Carbon Dioxide isn’t pollution. The global warming issue started as a genuine concern but it is now obvious to anyone who is paying attention that it was a false alarm. The problem is that the idea is far too useful to the control freaks for them to let it go now.
My initial reaction was pretty well the same, but thinking about it a bit more, part of me really hopes they would try.
It’s not the political filth getting their zil lanes – it would historically unprecedented if they didn’t – but the woke cancer simply would not be able to help itself.
“People of colur”, the alphabet soup of sexual freaks and emotional cripples, and, of course, of course, the desperate and oppressed seekers of a new life will all require extra rations to compensate for “historic oppression”
Actually, the dream scenario would be the yousaf obscenity (I’m definitely rooting for it) applying it unilaterally in scotland.
Oh fuck me would that be sweet!!
I hope they do introduce it. It would be the straw that broke the camel’s back. The chavs would smash the place up if there was no Maccy D’s, KFC or kebabs. I think we really would see mass rioting and politicians literally running for their lives.
I can see no other conclusion to the current, ongoing, constant insanity. There will be mass civil unrest, initially brutally put down by Government forces, fuelling further, more extensive and eventually, totally uncontrollable rioting, on a national scale.
People are reaching breaking point. When a man has nothing left to lose, he’s becomes a very dangerous animal indeed.
These control freaks need putting down. I’m fed up with people telling me how to live my life.
Me to, effing sick of it.
You’ll eat bugs (which we can’t really digest ) and be happy.
While we’ll dine on steak, chicken, fish (fresh btw) fine wines, fly all over the world in our private jets, chauffeured cars.
But never mind you’ll be happy, 15 minutes zones excersise.
We are so concerned about the health of our Countries, Nations, we care deeply, we’re saving you, our people, from Armageddon.
Sorry got to go banquet with the Mayor of London.
I want cameras on Bill Gates, George Soros, all the Bushes, Clintons, Obamas and Gretas for a year. They only eat bugs, no flights or internal combustion engines for a year.
Then, we can talk.
Otherwise, FO
George Monbiot knows how to sort out Climate Change. We just need to end our dependence on farming.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/02/20/monbiot-we-must-end-our-dependence-on-farming/
Presumably food just comes from the supermarket in the same way that electricity just comes out of a hole in his wall.
Ah yes, moonbat, a mix of authoritarian communism and rampant ignorance.
He really is as mad as a mongoose isn’t he? I mean, how exactly does he propose to free us from our dependence on farming? What does he think that we are going to eat? A complete and utter fool.
He may be one of very few commentators even more ignorant than Richard Murphy. Certainly should be on a fast plane to Caracas or Pyongyang ( with no possibility of return)
Not just as ignorant but equally poisonous.
I think that mass starvation is a feature, not a bug, for this creature.
I wonder when they will go for the water.
They will ‘F Off’;-
in the end they lose.
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We live in a world of plenty.
The austerity is imposed.
Politicians work for supranational interests. Not you and i.
JonT
OT but I thought that you might enjoy this story.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/02/descendent-of-u-richmond-school-of-laws-namesake-demands-return-of-3-6-billion-donations-after-woke-name-change/
I did see this being discussed elsewhere. I hope he sues and wins.
Whenever twats use the word fair, it means that they either have a mental age of 12, or think that we do.
I would be happy to fairly line them up ceaucescu style.