Climate alarmism as the impetus and justification for global wealth redistribution.
I believe I first made the argument that this was the “environmentalist” end game way back in 2002. At which point I was promptly labeled a denier, a paranoiac, and a danger to the Earth by the “concerned” class — be they staunch environmentalists, well-meaning “liberals,” or the “crunchy cons” who wished to show that they, too, took such “problems” as catastrophic warming cooling climate change seriously and were willing to work with the left in its aims to save the planet.
Well, then.
Bite me.
Professor Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, said the only way to reduce global emissions enough, while allowing the poor nations to continue to grow, is to halt economic growth in the rich world over the next twenty years.
This would mean a drastic change in lifestyles for many people in countries like Britain as everyone will have to buy less ‘carbon intensive’ goods and services such as long haul flights and fuel hungry cars.
Prof Anderson admitted it “would not be easy” to persuade people to reduce their consumption of goods
He said politicians should consider a rationing system similar to the one introduced during the last “time of crisis” in the 1930s and 40s.
This could mean a limit on electricity so people are forced to turn the heating down, turn off the lights and replace old electrical goods like huge fridges with more efficient models. Food that has travelled from abroad may be limited and goods that require a lot of energy to manufacture.
“The Second World War and the concept of rationing is something we need to seriously consider if we are to address the scale of the problem we face,” he said.
Prof Anderson insisted that halting growth in the rich world does not necessarily mean a recession or a worse lifestyle, it just means making adjustments in everyday life such as using public transport and wearing a sweater rather than turning on the heating.
Wear a sweater?
The last time I heard that, Jimmy Carter was talking about the inevitability of American decline — and pimping out the idea of a cultural malaise and communist viability while maintaining his stewardship over terrible inflation, unemployment, and the rise of disco.
What goes around, comes around.
In 2007 or thereabouts, I warned that Barack Obama was Jimmy Carter with a tan. The only thing missing now is a number one hit from the Bee Gees.
Bombing Cancun might solve the whole “Global Warming” problem.
He should maybe rethink that metaphor. Annihilating Nazis being one of the points of the exercise and all.
At least now gay people aren’t relegated to dressing up as cops and
indiansnative Americans while spelling out YMCA with their arms.Those repressive days are nearly over, now that they can pretend to be married, and decorate their M-16’s with rainbow stickers.
They’ll still have to wear a sweater though.
If you halt economic growth, you will halt the development of new technologies and new medicine. As I said in another comment a few entries ago, they would really be happy if most of us would just up and die.
Why should we reduce consumption of anything? As long as any good or service can be provided, the market will fix any issues with supply and demand. The only crisis we have is one created by idiotic governments doing idiotic things in response to idiots like these people. I hope everyone stops listening to this kind of carp.
How can the elite truly feel elite without the impoverished masses groveling for survival?
Are we really down to just the one now?
I call for a strict rationing regimen to conserve the world’s supply of Bee Gee.
Actually it looks like there are still at least two Bee Gees. But I don’t think that’s a viable breeding population (for various reasons) so my demand for a conservation regime stands.
HATER@!!
Save the Bee Gees!
Paranoiac? No kidding. It’s not as if they’ve been trying to hide their agenda: Desperate for Control. Those quotes go back 20 freakin’ years.
Because CO2 is pollution…or something.
Oh, don’t be silly. The rich will still be able to pay for what they want.
He means, of course, adjustments for the proles.
I already ride the bus and keep my house chilly. Will I get a pat on the head for my good behavior, or will my current lifestyle simply provide a stricter baseline for my future behavior modification?
Yeah, yeah, I know…
The naming of the Tyndall Centre.
OK, Perfesser Climate Guy, you first.
One assumes that all the attendees in Cancun sailed there in modest sailing craft constructed of renewable, low-impact materials. One can’t imagine them being such hypocrites as to take aircraft, what with all the environmental damage those monsters cause.
All ye sinners! Repent ye, for your doom is near! Repent of your sins!
The progressive left seems to be awfully puritanical about slights to their great goddess Gaia.
I’m good with the rationing if I get to kill fascists. Lets start with the beltway and California.
I know “death threat”, I denounce myself.
Public Transportation. Ever notice how often that comes up? Almost as often as light rail. There is even an equation. Public Transportation will be touted as a solution to (put problem HERE) as many times as there are private jets in the airports of Davos or Cancun or whatever other Hell Hole the SCIENTISTS decided to recrudesce in.
– Maybe we should just revert as a Nation to small clustered villages, clans, ect, with a requisite mall, village idiot, stunt orphans, a small group of resident bagmen and shopping cart ladies, and our own version of Springer, Oprah, and ESPN
– Everything would be within walking distance, and we wouldn’t need to pay Washington all these damn taxes. We could contribute to the military and that’s about it. The rest of the beltway would be on its own. It could self regulate or something.
I’m trying to square that whole “rationing and a halt to economic prosperity” bullet point with yesterday’s desperate “we need to RAISE public sector compensation” knee-jerk freak-out from the Left to the announced Fed freeze.
Crawford @#5 nails what it’s all, and only, about.
I was all happy that I might soon be on beachfront property, but at the current sea level increase rate of about a foot per century, it’ll be ten thousand years from now, more or less.
Somehow I don’t think the family estate will be in the hands of anyone I care about, after that much time.
i would like to apply for the village idiot job.
The competition will be fierce ‘buttons. The left has an almost insurmountable lock.
Well, it’s relly a good thing for the watermelons to be exposing themselves as the fascists they are.
‘recrudesce’
I had to look that one up. You an bet I’ll interjectin’ that one in me everyday conversations.
pdbuttons can post anytime about anything he wants.
i really, really want that village idiot job.
read anything i’ve written-stick it on my resume-
i’d match it up against anyones drivel
plus- i can double as a speed bump-you can put me
in your passenger seat and you could drive in the car-pool lane. also- my grandpappy was a country bumpkin-so I have a strain of bumpkin [it skips a generation] in me- plus- when i was a kid, i ate glue- i didn’t know you could sniff it? how idiotic is that?
i got the mueller nod-like i need encouragement..
aside-if an idiot needs encouragement he’s not real idiot-just a poseur/ real idiots know it’s a 24/7 gig
real idiots have two speeds-idiot speed and sleep.
i wrote a book- “how to be a village idiot for dummies
unfortunately- i wrote it in invisible ink
i should have proof-read it- but every idiot knows idiots don’t proof-read. i’d sell you a copy, but if i did that would just prove you were a bigger idiot than me, and i won’t stand for that
here’s an idiot tip for ya..
when talking to idiots don’t speak slowly, as if speaking slower will make the idiot understand- it won’t, and frankly you’re just wasting each others time
instead-speak faster,and let the idiot get on with his/her idiot duties
save your coherence for the coppers..
and if it gets that far, the jury
Buttons, I need to study the full-size version of your avatar. Closely.
mcgehee e-mail me @ snausagle@yahoo.com and i’ll send it over
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