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.
How does taxing anything reduce Carbon emissions? And, don’t they know that when governments tax food, they sign their death warrant? Man, these people are nuts!
So this is the type of “research” going on in the UK! News flash: food has been taxed since forever! On the other hand, there was a more interesting story with the headline: “Feces covered animals found in home…!
It’s easy doing Leftwing science. No evidence required. No common sense required. All you have to do is make sure you mention “climate change” in your musings and then you’ll get paid, whether your proposal makes any sense or not.
Yeah, if I was just starting out, I would go into the climate change business. There are all sorts of ways to get paid doing that, judging by what is going on today. Any harebrained scheme will get you paid if you can link it to climate change somehow.
Then along comes Trump. No soup for you! The Climate Change Gravy Train is making its last run.
So they predicted how many lives could be saved by levying taxes on food. Did I miss the estimate about how many would starve to death? Was that in their estimate?
When the fraud of ethanol was implemented as a gasoline additive, there were food riots in Haiti and deaths over the increase in corn prices, but what’s a few hundred deaths due to starvation when you’re saving the planet?
As usual, the Satanic globalist cabal cloaks their plans for mass genocide and world population reduction within the guise of *saving the planet.* Today, they want you to give up your money to the cause, but if they get their way, tomorrow you will be giving up your life to satisfy the requirements of their psychopathic fantasies.
These *UN Experts* need to be hunted down and killed on sight. Every single one of them is 10x more dangerous than a Terrorist Suicide Bomber with a First Class Ticket in his pocket to ‘paradise’. Then after these maniacs are *Neutralized* the entire U.N. System, no matter the country, needs to be dealt with like the Terrorists they are and ‘expeditiously terminated, and every U.N. Building turned into rubble like it never existed.
A little harsh you might say?…uh, no it’s not. The U.N. was formed with one goal; To Prevent War. But it has somehow morphed into an organization that believes that it alone knows what’s best for every person on the planet. Fourth rate bureaucrats are sitting around like a Gods on Mt Olympus deciding who will live and who will die.
Sorry but THAT will never happen. Not as long as there is a United States of America.
(now you know why we have a Second Amendment and we buy more guns than candy!)
Thank you!!
Yet another war on common people and the poor by Elites. Better we should kill and eat environmentalists than tax food!
These political thieves have managed to turn over another stone of taxation in an attempt to deceive us into thinking they are doing good for us.
All they are doing is duping those who cannot follow some logic. Let us tax high carbon producing foods such as cattle into oblivion while making humans consume more vegetable matter. They don’t tell you that then YOU will be the carbon producing source with your increased methane production.
Hypocritical political thieves.
It appears that the green misanthropists first solution is to tax something. Of course, this is done for our own good. These are the moral busy bodies that C.S. Lewis warned about:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
An particularly apropos quote for this topic, though I think many of the apocalyptic climate change crowd are doing it not for our own good, but for the supposed good of “nature” which, in their minds, is more important than mere humans.
Yes, those are good points. I just did not have a quote that fit all of the circumstances.
The insanity of George III has been inherited by this menagerie of nincompoops.
Tyranny at its best
Buncha rich hoi polis and politicians wasting fuel and money telling us serfs what to flippin do. There is no manmade climate chg
I have a plan that will massively reduce the carbon footprint of mankind. Those with the knowledge of the dangers of anthropogenic climate change and who have such love for the earth that others lack can greatly reduce not only CO2 production, but also far more problematic methane production by sequestering their carbon at a depth of approximately six feet below ground. Come on guys, take one for the earth!
Yea, has nothing to do with Globalist control of business, people, resources and more taxes. Keeping chanting their mantra to yourself. Come on, take on for the Globalist!
It all makes sense if you look at it from the Progressive goal to reduce population to 1 billion people or less. The leading Progressive really do believe that the common person is leading way to much of an extravagant lifestyle.
There goes McDonalds, Burger King, Hardees…….
The AWG sales and marketing middle level managers should go for mandatory elimination of all income tax credits for married couples and families filing jointly or singly per country.
Then add a mandatory new tax on human birth, say about 1 million monetary units per country per birth.
Bet Paul Ehrlich would wet his shorts over this. ha ha
All of these reasonable arguments are wasted effort. These “Oxford” folks are the height of evil. That’s it. They are dangerous to mankind and must be eliminated. It is a matter of liberty and survival.
Tax em to save lives…… that only works until you tax em so much they can’t afford to eat and die from starvation. but hey the fat cats will get fatter right….. #ClimateChange is a shamwow to swindle the slaves.
The Green movement is about genocide and nothing else. These people’s names should be remembered and when possible they should be executed for this when public sentiment permits along with all their ilk who can be reached. They have written something unforgivable. They stand for something unforgivable. They are something unforgivable.
When will you people in the UK catch on that this climate change nonsense is being propagated for the purpose of redistribution of wealth by climate change proponents.
Just look at this cretin’s cv.
Dr Marco Springmann
http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/611
Never had a real job.
Oh, look who’s a Co-director, Dr Myles Allen.
Adam Gallon November 19, 2016 at 12:14 pm
Yeah Adam, kind of what I found. For example he has a masters in Physics but no relating work.
Over the last year all of his work is a “pitch” to push a Vegan lifestyle. It seems almost a obsession with him.
I’m not even sure CAGW is really a issue to him other than a means to a end. All the liberal/lefty politic that are being attribute to him may only be nothing more the clothes for him. If the right wing groups were more sympathetic to his Vegan stance he might embrace that. As the saying goes “Strange bed fellows”
I don’t think you can reach this man his position on being a Vegan and imposeing it on everyone else is ,,,all consuming.
now I’m starting to sound like “Lew & Cooky”
michael
If you are interested in hearing it directly from Dr. Marco, here is a link to him explaining. By the way, he does not have an “english” accent even though at Oxford. It’s subtle but maybe German or Austrian?
http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/view/549
Why does the name Herbert Backe keep coming to mind? (WW 2 German Hunger Plan)
michael
This would cut 1 million jobs in the dairy industry in the US
Commies like Stalin, Polpot and Mao did this kind of stuff to starve millions to death.
It just keeps coming! New ideas to redistribute money, health, populations, you name it!
These meddlesome do-nothing’s will prattle on about controlling how people live until someone finally tells them to shut up and has the will
And power to enforce that will. Perhaps the budding wave of what is being called “Nationalism” will finally stifle the Warming warblers. This wave seems to be more a wave of rational, logical, common sense leaders who are not cowed by the elitest’s use of flawed science and the bleating of consensus .
A good kick in the rear is needed to bring the world back to its senses
Why not just eliminate all people! Planet saved!!