A group of researchers in Oxford University, England have suggested that imposing a massive tax on carbon intensive foods – specifically protein rich foods like meat and dairy – could help combat climate change.
Pricing food according to its climate impacts could save half a million lives and one billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions
Taxing greenhouse gas emissions from food production could save more emissions than are currently generated by global aviation, and lead to half a million fewer deaths from chronic diseases, according to a new study published in Nature Climate Change.
The study, conducted by a team of researchers from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food at the University of Oxford and the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington DC, is the first global analysis to estimate the impacts that levying emissions prices on food could have on greenhouse gas emissions and human health.
The findings show that about one billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions could be avoided in the year 2020 if emissions pricing of foods were to be implemented, more than the total current emissions from global aviation. However, the authors stress that due consideration would need to be given to ensuring such policies did not impact negatively on low income populations.
“Emissions pricing of foods would generate a much needed contribution of the food system to reducing the impacts of global climate change,” said Dr Marco Springmann of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food, who led the study. “We hope that’s something policymakers gathering this week at the Marrakech climate conference will take note of.”
Much of the emissions reduction would stem from higher prices and lower consumption of animal products, as their emissions are particularly high. The researchers found that beef would have to be 40% more expensive globally to pay for the climate damage caused by its production. The price of milk and other meats would need to increase by up to 20%, and the price of vegetable oils would also increase significantly. The researchers estimate that such price increases would result in around 10% lower consumption of food items that are high in emissions. “If you’d have to pay 40% more for your steak, you might choose to have it once a week instead of twice,” said Dr Springmann.
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The results indicate that the emissions pricing of foods could, if appropriately designed, be a health-promoting climate-change mitigation policy in high-income, middle-income, and most low-income countries. Special policy attention would be needed in those low-income countries where a high fraction of the population is underweight, and possibly for low-income segments within countries.
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Read more: http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/news/2016_11_Emissions
The abstract of the study;
Mitigation potential and global health impacts from emissions pricing of food commodities
Marco Springmann, Daniel Mason-D’Croz, Sherman Robinson, Keith Wiebe, H. Charles J. Godfray, Mike Rayner & Peter Scarborough
The projected rise in food-related greenhouse gas emissions could seriously impede efforts to limit global warming to acceptable levels. Despite that, food production and consumption have long been excluded from climate policies, in part due to concerns about the potential impact on food security. Using a coupled agriculture and health modelling framework, we show that the global climate change mitigation potential of emissions pricing of food commodities could be substantial, and that levying greenhouse gas taxes on food commodities could, if appropriately designed, be a health-promoting climate policy in high-income countries, as well as in most low- and middle-income countries. Sparing food groups known to be beneficial for health from taxation, selectively compensating for income losses associated with tax-related price increases, and using a portion of tax revenues for health promotion are potential policy options that could help avert most of the negative health impacts experienced by vulnerable groups, whilst still promoting changes towards diets which are more environmentally sustainable.
Read more: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate3155.html
This proposal, from a group of people who have probably never missed a meal in their lives, is totally obscene. High income countries often have a lot of poor people who would be hard hit by increases in the price of food.
Needlessly exacerbating the risk poor people don’t get enough to eat, especially children and pregnant mothers, who are especially vulnerable to adverse health impacts from lack of protein in their diet – if this ghastly proposal is ever implemented, future generations will look upon it as a crime against humanity.
The City of London has cut a deal with China, whereby Communist China is given world prominence by having it’s currency become a world reserve currency. In exchange for that, the City of London will be given first row sits in trading the Chinese currency in Europe further reaffirming its hole as a financial center.
Additionally to that, China has agreed to help the City of London spread the carbon tax worldwide. City of London benefits because the carbon credits market will be controlled by it’s mega banks.
A world where Communist China has such power as to be able to hold and print a reserve currency will be a world where freedom is looked down upon, with internet censorship apparatus being promoted as a good thing. Where free expression of one’s opinions can land you in jail as is the standard in Communist China now.
This whole Global Warming, later renamed to Climate Change, is nothing more than a dirty alliance of the England’s mega bankers with the Communist Chinese to try and enslave the whole of the free world and turn it into something similar to China, a country made of many smaller countries tied together by forceful suppression and of any and all dissenting opinions. Isn’t that what Europe is already becoming?
We must oppose this plan.
We must identify and oppose this people.
This is high treason to the values we hold dearest.
Assemble these individuals that made the recommendation to tax food up before a firing squad and then machine gun them to death. That’s the best that they deserve.
Just what we need; more fake statistics from the green weenies.
If we just taxed the hot air coming out of their pie holes, there’d be enough money to fix the globe.
Yea right. Make.it expensive for healthy food but all the junk gmo goes to the poor. What do these tax dollars do? Make people eat healthier? Bwahahahahaha, what a joke. Governments and corporations get richer while everyone else struggles even more. Hamburger for 10 bucks or gmo soyburger for 3. Climate change my az. If it’s such a big deal. Let the farmers keep.their money and build huge buildings with ventilation like chickens have. Taxing the people who are already struggling is something a dictator would do
No. More ‘fake news’ and we won’t stand for it anymore. Just another scheme to take more money out of our pockets.
Why don’t they just cut to the chase and admit they want to kill all but a half-billion people as UN Agenda 21 dictates?
Every atom of carbon in a cow is taken up from the environment. It can’t create new CO2. It’s a zero sum game. These Oxford pontificators must be on something!
Just another way to crap on the lower classes while the upper class adds another comma to their net worth.
I wont buy meat now. I kill and eat what we need. Its been changing since time began, cant stop or slow down what the earth will do.
someone:
Jack up the prices in the Oxford cafeteria by 1000% by Monday.
Gives them a taste of their idea.
These researchers should be made into soylent green to save the planet.
Ain’t no meat in a Snickers Bar. Obese Vegans & Smug Liberals……get off the tracks!!! Here comes the Trump Train!
So starve people to combat fake climate change. If this isn’t a plan for depopulation I don’t know what is…..and what happens when health care costs skyrocket due to all the future vitamin and mineral deficiencies and the malnourishment from a non meat diet?
They will be given a pill and told to lay down and go to sleep.
Jonestown is the model they like.
Lunatics and asylum come to mind.
No mention of the only significant greenhouse gas – namely water.
I have never heard such bull shit in my entire life.. where do these nut jobs come up with ludicrous ideas??? And some one paid for this they ought to be shot!!! I don’t think these idiots walked to where they are .. I’m sure they flew and drove, and are eating everything that they say every one else should not..
Are they waring clothes?? And shoes and hats they should think of what that is doing to our poor climate!!
You people have no idea wtf you are talking about when I see you start giving up everything that you consider that is valuable maybe just maybe I will think your not an idiot
You see? It’s all about fleecing the public again. They are running out of other peoples money.
This paper is bordering on the obscene. I guarantee you that none of the authors have ever had to skip a meal in their life and yet they propose here to deprive humanity, in particular the poorer part of it, of the only decent source of protein available. Because that is what the envisioned taxation would do.
The notion that Methane is a climate driver is a laughable proposition to anybody with a more than superficial knowledge of the physics of radiative transfer. The whole climate kaboodle is a pseudo-science based on a fundamental misapprehension of the effect of changes of atmospheric composition, on a par with the dark days of Lysenkoism when politically correct charlatans were allowed to wreck soviet agriculture. This paper proposes to inflict damage on an even larger scale on the human enterprise.
This is the Progression of Globalism. It is Satanic at it’s root. Globalism must be defeated and the perpetrators of Globalism must be tried in a court of law, convicted and sentenced. Globalism offers only a New Feudal Order to Humanity. Humanity is Repulsed by Globalism. Humanity is at war against Globalists.
Humanity has won two recent battles. We Won Brexit and We put Donald Trump into Power. This war isn’t over yet. PREPARE for more battles that may GO Hot!
These are the most educated idiot’s I have ever heard of in my life. Why don’t we tax arrogant jack asses instead at least they can afford to pay the tax.
No tax on food! Global warming #hoax
“If you’d have to pay 40% more for your steak, you might choose to have it once a week instead of twice,” said Dr Springmann.
WHO THE HE*L has STEAK TWICE A WEEK?????????? They do NOT know a THING about the people they are attempting to denigrate, regulate, and punish! They are FILLED with disdain and hatred!
These FOOLS have their heads in the clouds! I too can make any statistic out of any “fact” that anyone cites; that is ALL they are doing, simply making up false notions, in order to justify their miserable existences. Go away creeps, may you have a TRUMP in your future.
The control and management of global food supplies has been a corporate and political priority for decades, with US-based conglomerates leading the charge. As elite establishment political figure Henry Kissinger remarked in 1970, “Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.” Recent research places multinational corporations behind the push toward controlling global food supplies.
This is another convenient excuse in the tightening of that control.
It’s TAXATION without representation. Yet another UN/Bankster tax scheme to consolidate the NWO power in the hands of the UNelected !!!!
This is a Religion folks. Believe it or you will be executed