Carbon Budgets

[2807]

Everyone in Britain should have their own carbon budget that will limit how many foreign holidays they can take and how many miles they can drive, the Government's chief environment adviser has said.

http://tinyurl.com/ykkjlle

Now - I am not totally against this idea & think it could be quite good so long as it applies equally to all.

But I suspect that in true socialist fashion, those passing down such ideas from on high, won't be abiding by them as they're far too important (in their own opinion) a la Jose Manuell Baruso proposing that the size of passenger vehicles (cars to you & me) should be reduced to improve their efficiency, whilst getting ito a chrysler grand voyager himself.

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[desperate]

It is a nice Idea if only it worked, basically the result is, the rich do as they please and the rest of us can f*** off, then social unrest follows.

Desperate

[Ivan]

Of course, it'll give rise to carbon-trading. Low earners in cities (who can walk to work) or zero earners that sit on their backsides in high-rise blocks (very low heating requirements) will end up richer as they can sell their unused credits - a redistribution of wealth to a certain extent. Of course we could do it worldwide.....which, if you think about it, is what the recent european summit basically outlined.

[Outtasight]

Yeeessss (as Paxman says).

Unfortunately the carbon trading system has already been hijacked by city traders who even now are creating the same kind of non-existent products for packaging credits into "financial instruments" and plotting a course for the next big crash when everyone realises "OMG!!! It's not real!!!" and the banks collapse (again).

If you've never seen the movie "Logan's Run", I can highly recommend it for a vision of the future under environmental socialism.

[KenB]

Logan's Run is worth watching just for Jenny Agutter   ;-)

As is "American Werewolf in London"  - another great flick from my teenage years.

Certainly true that greedy city boyz are trying to make money from carbon dioxide - what a gas!



Ken

[Rooster]

If you've never seen the movie "Logan's Run", I can highly recommend it for a vision of the future under environmental socialism.

A vision for the future? ...... 

[Outtasight]

I was thinking more along the lines that the World will be saved by Peter Ustinov's Old Man character and his 200 cats...   

Far more likely we'll all end up as recycled burgers courtesy of Box:

"Fish, plankton, sea greens... protein from the sea!"