Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The Berlin Hot or Cool Institute has affirmed the green position that only global communism can save us from the carbon demon.
The polluting elite: Why the climate needs ‘radical’ lifestyle changes
by Beh Lih Yi | @BehLihYi | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Tuesday, 5 October 2021 11:09 GMTYou may not feel able to fight global warming on your own – but government policy nudges could help wealthy consumers shift to greener lifestyles, says a new report
By Beh Lih Yi
Oct 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – From banning private jets and yachts to cutting back on meat-eating, researchers on Tuesday urged the world’s major economies to adopt “radical” policies to limit the impact of luxury lifestyles on global warming – even if they prove unpopular.
Today’s “lifestyle” carbon footprints in the 20 largest economies are out of line with an internationally agreed goal to keep temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial times, says a new study by the Berlin-based Hot or Cool Institute.
Individual behaviour changes alone will not be sufficient without a major shift in government policies to push citizens to lead greener lifestyles, the researchers said.
The U.N. climate science panel warned in August that global heating is dangerously close to spiralling out of control and will bring climate disruption globally for decades to come.
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Which lifestyle choices have the biggest impacts?
Food, housing and personal transport have the largest impact on climate change – representing about four-fifths of total lifestyle carbon footprints, compared to other areas like goods, leisure and services, according to the research.
But individual behaviour shifts alone will not be enough to transition to a low-carbon society, with researchers arguing those must happen alongside broader system change.
“Behaviour change can only do so much without a full turnaround from our pro-growth politics, financial and economic models towards a more holistic wellbeing economy,” said Sandrine Dixson-Declève, co-president of the Club of Rome, a Swiss non-profit.
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Read more: https://news.trust.org/item/20211005110948-0t9b6
The referenced study page has the following passage;
… The study also highlights the huge inequalities and differences in lifestyle-related greenhouse gas emissions among the world’s major economies. An average person in Canada, the country with the highest per-capita emissions among the economies studied, has a lifestyle footprint six times larger than a person in Indonesia. …
I’m afraid the sheer absurdity of this comparison collapsed my interest in reading on. I’ve been to Singapore, close to Indonesia. The standout feature of an extreme tropical climate is you don’t need home heating.
Maybe if Canada had a tropical climate, their per capita energy footprint would be more like Indonesia’s.
And just when is this ‘disruption’ supposed to begin? (Inquiring minds want to know)
As soon as the activists with the cordless hair driers invade the weather stations…
It began when the 179 nations signed the UN “Agenda 21” plan — including President George Bush … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkM0W1401dg
Now UN Agenda 30 (2030) – Sustainability, signed by nations circa 1990 then targeting 2021.
An example is state owned public forests converted into UN registered National Parks that are financed by each nation’s taxpayers but effectively locked up to prevent sustainable logging, new dams, extraction of minerals and energy, limits on camping etc., and Marine National Parks where commercial fishing is prohibited resulting in the example of Australia with an abundance of seafoods those products being imported.
The impact of the Agenda now 30 is widespread and damaging to an economy and related economic prosperity.
Yes — and they keep changing the name to confuse the public. At least we know the USA version of the Agenda — the Green New Deal. The recently declared UN Red Alert should really be called the Green Alert … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vb7JRK4Yko
“The impact of the Agenda now 30 is widespread and damaging to an economy and related economic prosperity.”
Then again, that’s the whole point of Agenda 21 from the get-go!!!
It’s like commercial fusion power, its always decades in the future. Enough time for the folks making the claims can comfortably retire from professional life and not have to face the lies they told.
Why do you assume fusion is the future?
It sounds to me as call of desperation from those who are starting to realise that their extreme lunacy has nowhere further to go.
I hope you’re right that this nonsense stems from “desperation”. What bugs me is that I think these Misanthropic Marxist Malthusians sense victory.
And won’t they be surprised when they win.
“Wait! I’m sitting here starving and freezing in the dark. It wasn’t supposed to be like this.”
Better yet. How would they define disruption?
That will go down like a glass of cold sick with the Islington Climaratti
They want all us peons in mud huts. Of course, the Leninist/Green intelligensia will maintain their current lifestyle.
Exactly. They want us to suffer — while they party party party … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtBT3M-RIZ0
“Let them eat cake”?
More like crumbs if the great reset occurs. Business is terrific for those companies selling survival (equipment and food) products.
The aparatchiks always did and always do live well, far better than their proletariat, in commie dictatorships.
They want us off “their” beaches and ski slopes. They don’t like the competition to middle class creates for resources, including the supply of oil they need for their yachts and jets.
Someone should tell these idiots that real environmental degradation will only happen when 7 billion people are “nudged” into a subsistence existence.
Well, somebody has to suffer for it.
And that’s their plan for us — not them … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtBT3M-RIZ0
Good old fashioned Champagne Socialists!!!
I have to confess that the headline – “Curb the climate excesses of the rich” – is what caught my eye.
The rest of it? Why should the lower classes be expected to do what the overfed wealthy are unwilling to even address?
It seems the Green Blob’s definition of “the rich” is “the average person in Canada”. The Blob will never attack their wealthy benefactors.
Because you can’t hire lawyers and lobbyists to get loop holes in the fascist regulations.
More importantly, I cannot speak for the USA or Canada, but in the UK, the laws are made by lawyers, for lawyers, to make pots of money, for lawyers, it is the way of the world, sadly. I’ll say it again ad nauseum, “Why is it that a vampire will never suck the blood of a lawyer,…………..It’s called professional courtesy!!!” 😉
Sara, didn’t you see the UN climate science panel’s descriptive “dangerously close to spiraling out of control” —- dangerously, and spiraling I tell you! Just visualize all that excess heat driving a globally averaged temperature spiraling in its ascent no less. Never mind that the greatest elevations of that average of daily high and low temperatures over the past century (during 1920-40 and 1980-2000) were actually largely confined to (wait for it) Canada, Scandinavia, and Siberia; and were mostly elevations of their nightly low temperatures that then impacted their calculated average upward, while the averaged daily highs themselves were rather little changed overall.
And had that not been so, the per-capita energy use multiple of shivering Canadians over their equatorial Indonesian counterparts would be greater yet than 6 fold. In any case from this UN report and the likewise spiraling woke interest in global equity, we may anticipate Indonesians will soon be flooding across Canada’s southern border, first via the currently porous U.S. one and then the further if the Dakotas won’t suffice, for a much sought-after cooling relief as world temperatures spiral their way upward out of sight any time now.
Yes, I did see that, while I was in the middle of drinking ice tea. Forgot to put the glass down and some of it was hit by my giggle-snort.
I’m trying to figure out just how delusional those people are. 🙂
It’s a sky-diving reference, aka a death spiral.
Simply because, Sara, we must learn to know our place!!! We mustn’t be allowed to afford to fly to the same exotic holiday locations which were their preserve, to sunbathe on the same beautiful sun-kissed beaches that were their personal beach territory, oh know, we must KNOW OUR PLACE!!! 😉 AtB.
OK, Alan (the Brit), my place is in the kitchen making a big pot of soup for the rest of us, along with some really good, crusty whole grain bread.
When Those People show up in the cold, looking for a handout, well – they’ll just have to wait at the end of the line where they belong. 🙂
But this entire evolution of climate insanity (on their part) has persuaded me to finish a project I started a while back, but wasn’t sure where to go with it.
A big pot of soup with crusty whole grain bread? Can I come, please?
My place is also in the kitchen as I live alone, & there’s nothing like home made soup IMHO!!! 😉
Of course, you can come! All are welcome at my table, and no, I don’t do vegan cooking, but I do do flavor-filled cooking.
Alan the Brit: “[…]we must KNOW OUR PLACE!!!”
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Don’t forget to doff your cap or tug your forelocks when they pass by, Alan.
Word salad creates idiot minds.
And there you have it.
In order to save the earth, we must do a “full turnaround” of everything that built the western world, so says The Club Of Rome, who obviously knows best because of “research”.
But a full “turnaround” would mean going back to feudalism, monarchy or religious rule since that’s where we came from. As we all were taught, that worked out so well.
What do you expect from the Club of Rome, the idiots who claimed man was a cancer on the earth
Club of Rome needs to be declared a terrorist organization, its assets frozen and impounded, and their leadership put under Interpol arrest warrants.
Wish I could upvote more than once
Ditto.
Yup – live short, miserable lives in huts, starving, barely keeping alive, for Gaia!
Look on the bright side, they can keep their carbon footprints to a minimum because they are based in Switzerland, just up the road from where they keep their low tax bank accounts!!!
urged the world’s major economies to adopt “radical” policies to limit the impact of luxury lifestyles on global warming – even if they prove unpopular.
Ah, and there’s the rub. Democracies don’t do things that are unpopular because the ruling party gets thrown out in the next election. And if they’re seriously going to go after the lifestyles of the rich and famous, guess where all their campaign donations start to flow to?
Which leaves the dictatorships. Who don’t much care unless they can get something out of it.
Getting thrown out could depend on who gets to count the votes, no?
and on who gets to turn in completed ballots at the polls.
Don’t forget, AGW promoting slimey duplicitous elites like Lord Peter Mandelson, stated categorically some years ago, that we are living in a “post-democratic world”!!! In other words, people like him want to do away with the very system that brought them to power in the first place, to be replaced with one of dictatorship!!! Now, where have I read about something like that happening before??? 1930s Western Europe, perhaps???
In Venezuela, once the most prosperous Latin American country, the Hugo Chavez regime followed by Maduro imposed austerity, poverty, and a low carbon lifestyle on most of its own population, at least the ones too poor or too stupid to get the Hell out while they still had money worth anything. Once they voted in socialism and gave Chavez the tools to political power, the people could never rid themselves of that cancer. Funny thing that it was cancer that took out Chavez, but didn’t help the people because he left a taxi driver in charge. Almost as bad as putting a former bar tender in charge.
The paper (link) starts with the following sentence:
Fact?
Is this a fact?
Where are the citations?
Peer-reviewed my arse
They mix a fact with a conjecture. Total GHG emissions are a reality of lifestyle, fact. Unsustainable is a conjecture, an unproven assertion.
The logical fallacy of truth by assertion. It’s unsustainable because they say it is unsustainable. They then mix in a provable fact to claim if you don’t accept the entire statement you are denying a fact, that you are science denier.
The fact that the Green Leftists stridently oppose emission-free nuclear power as a way to lift and maintain the world out of poverty is strong evidence it’s the life-style they are attacking (freedoms, individual liberty) and not emissions relating to any supposed climate change.
I have said it until I’m blue in the face, I am not a “climate” denier, whatever that is when it’s at home, I have never denied that the Earth’s climate changes, it’s has always changed, & always will, it’s something a puny species like Humanity has no control over whatsoever!!! Anyone have any idea when ET & his buddies are going to come down to Earth & wag their shiny index fingers at us for our carbon sins???
I would suggest free ad space for them in October and early November next year before the U.S. elections.
Well, maybe they have a point in a way they did not intend.
Russian court orders bailiffs to enforce fine on Facebook – ABC News (go.com)
Could we see the free pass for John Kerry.
John Kerry just ratted out Joe Biden, re being totally oblivious to the upset of France missing the submarine deal with Australia, so he gets a free pass. For awhile.
That was kind of crazy seeing John Kerry throw Biden under the bus like that, telling French reporters that Biden wasn’t aware of the submarine deal that cut France out of the deal and made them very angry.
I wonder why Kerry did that? He’s smart enough to know that is going to make the evening news. Well, on Fox News anyway. So why embarrass your president like that?
Maybe Kerry thought that he was absolving Biden of guilty intent. And whoever said Kerry is smart enough to know X, don’t count on it.
John Kerry is a politician so stop listening to him the minute his lips start to move!!!!!!!!
I still think the French missed something by not offering their own nuclear submarine technology to Australia.
The French don’t have nuclear submarine tech. Nuke plants for subs are whole different game from France’s large land based reactors running low to moderately enriched uranium. France could get there. They have technical expertise in nuclear designs, but they’d have to test and evelop a lot, which is very expensive.
The French do have independently developed nuclear submarines, and were noted or building ballistic missile subs before attack submarines.
The British did get aid from the US in building their first nuclear submarine, buying the reactor from the US.
“White House climate czar John Kerry traveled to Iceland by private jet in 2019 to accept an environmental award and defended his transportation choice to a reporter at the time by calling it, “the only choice for somebody like me.”
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/kerry-defended-taking-private-jet-171410846.html
“the only choice for somebody like me.”???
Oh I get it, he’s a god so not affected by puny Human laws/rules/ morals/ethics, etc!
DAISNAID!!! Do As I Say Not As I Do!!!
The United Nation’s “Agenda 21” program is designed to fix Climate Change and all that troubles the world — even if they have to make up troubles (little climate change) … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vb7JRK4Yko
Unfortunately, there is no crisis for them to come in and solve by force along with all their other claimed mandates. Oh but wait…
How about we curb the excesses of the government officials while we are at it. No more air travel, no more personal cars, and no more vacations requiring travel? Oh, and they only get electricity for about 8 hours a day and even then it is rationed.
That should get their attention.
You mean like these contracts?
Government gives GM $36.4 million to develop 10 heavy-duty Suburbans (autoblog.com)
That is just the first trial contract. If GM delivers what the StateDept wants in 2022, then GM gets a long-term contract for 200 of those armored Suburbans per year to 2030.
As the article points out, 2030 is when supposedly half of GMs production is supposed to be EVs and the other half hybrids.
Climate Change policy is for us little people to carry the burden
This is background noise… and detracts from the issue and focus. Better get the little people to recognize the massive mind and thought manipulation going on.
Here is how the systems works, or WILL work, in the minds of the alarmists: the more you project doom and gloom, and the more you agitate for communism (by writing alarmist articles) then when the BIG RESET occurs, the higher rank and pay you will be given by the leaders. It is like going to heaven, rewards for good works.
You must have spent time with humans, you seem to understand them well.
then when the BIG RESET occurs,
you will be treated like the useful idiot you are.
Going forward (for me at least) when I see articles like this on WUWT, after minimal reading, my standard post will be: Gobbledygook.
So, Gobbledygook.
Cheers.
John F. Kerry is our nation’s first Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and the first-ever Principal to sit on the National Security Council entirely dedicated to climate change.
Kerry measures his frequent flier miles in the millions.
Lead by example. Kerry you need to promise to conduct all future activities virtually.
“…conduct all future activities virtually.” That will be difficult for John Heniz Kerry as he has no virtue.
Kerry deserves to have his security clearance yanked for betraying foreign government secrets entrusted to the US on Israeli military operations in Syria to the Iranians. Kerry should then be prosecuted.
Kerry should be prosecuted for a lot of things. Just about everything he does harms the United States. Kind of like Joe Biden.
Why waste all that taxpayers money, stick him up against a wall & be done with it!!! 😉
Private planes , numerous yachts and houses : he married well , that John Kerry Heinz .
John “Lurch” Kerry, Secretary of Ketchup
“You Rang?”
But where’s the fun in that, no travelling to exotic places, all on the taxpayers expense – trust me, regardless of the nation, the taxpayer always pays in the end for someone else’s balls-up!!! (FYI “balls-up” is a nautical expression, for those of you who may find it offensive, & it bears no reference to male genitalia!!!)
And if it wasn’t 7,800 km from coast to coast (by road), that would help too.
And no more summer hockey would help,
same old same old
The Green Eyed Monster raises its ugly head, YET again = because I’m too dumb to make a life for myself, nobody can
sooo childish. so pathetic. so dumb. Do try getting a life you people
PS I am not berating children, faaaaarrrrrr from it
Kids ‘know’ how this world works, it’s in their genes. As kids though, they don’t know the words to explain it. They’d normally learn the words as they grow.
Go meet them, dance with them, then you’ll realise.
Trouble is, muppets like these waste that inheritance by bottle-feeding them then getting them addicted to sugar ASAP and bring that growth to sickening (literally via Obesity) thud before it even kicks off.
so sad – such a waste
You mean like this??
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio accused of misusing NYPD resources in DOI report – ABC News (go.com)
So Canada is supposed to emulate Indonesia?
Let’s unwrap that. The IMF estimated GDP per capita of Canada this year is $49,222 while the IMF estimated GDP per capital for Indonesia this year is $4,256.
Meaning, Canadians, who enjoy an economic wealth generating economy nearly a dozen times higher per person that of Indonesia, should voluntarily downsize their economy?
I mean, even commies would have a hard time justifying that as their “revolution of the proletariat”. What would their motto be:
I’m sure that would be really popular with the masses.
SMH cubed.
The article by Willis showed we already passed 2.0 deg C
No we have not. Only about 1 deg C in the last 170 years when you filter out all the erroneous urban heat effect data.
“… by the Berlin-based Hot or Cool Institute.”
From their webpage:
“While behaviour change is important at all levels, it is vital to change the norms, laws, provisioning systems, and infrastructure that dictate the actions of individuals. Sustainable change is both individual and systemic change.”
So, no more hot chocolate over vanilla ice-cream, it MUST be the other way round: hot vanilla ice-cream over cold chocolate!
How very “group think/speak”!!! They’re letting the covers drop exposing their true intent. They’re getting careless!!!
I have no problem with those who keep screeching this shyte being forced to live it. Identify the greentards, round them up, lock them in “facilities” for their own protection and let them sit in the dirt and starve. Their sick a$$ed anti-human ideology would be removed from society. Meanwhile geneticists can isolate their damaged dna and eliminate it from the human race. Only then can we take the next step forward in our evolution.
They aren’t coming after the billionaires, they are coming after you and me. The billionaire claim is just a false-flag operation. It’s our ability to afford an annual holiday trip or two to nice destinations and the resources in toto that travel consumes by the West’s large affluent middle class that the Club of Rome gangsters wants to end.
The very wealthy and the political elites (traveling on the taxpayer dime) know they will always have the resources to live the lifestyle they think they deserve.
The “behaviour change” and the totalitarian government policies they want to eanct are through energy prices skyrocketing. That will drive the cost of essentials from food, clothing, housing, healthcare to levels that entirely consume a former middle class wages, and forcing welfare dependency on a once prosperous, independent middle class. This of course pushes travel niceties and to faraway vacation spots out of financial reach, and pushes the middle class into s servile serfdom in a welfare state. The government that gives you everything you need can also take it away if your social credit score falls below threshold lines for things like refusing a needle jab in the arms, today for a vaccine, tomorrow for a tracking implant.
The pursuit to destroy the West’s middle class is also the only reason evil men like George Soros push open borders for Western countries to flood this country with immigrants unable to read and write or communicate in the native language.
Meanwhile, it is reported that the average American is paying $150.00 per month more because of current inflation.
This extra $150.00 is coming out of all our pockets including the poorest people among us who can least afford these price increases.
Biden has no clue how to fix this problem.
Problem, I don’t think he sees it that way.
I think you are correct.
I’m not sure what’s going through our Dear Leader’s mind. To date, his thinking has been detrimental to the interests of the United States. My expectation is this will continue at least until the 2022 elections roll around. Apparently, we can’t count on a small number of Republican U.S. Senators to hold the line.
We’ll just have to wait until the 2022 elections and then we can replace these wishy-washy Republicans with America First Republicans.
I got the number wrong. It’s not $150.00 extra per month, it’s $175.00 extra people are having to spend on the essentials they buy every day.
That means that $175.00 won’t be spent on discretionary things, which will lower the profits of businesses that would have provided those goods had the customer had the money to purchase them.
The economy slows down as economic activity slows down because people have less discretionary income to spend.
And, of course, this $175.00 per month takes the biggest chunk out of the poorest people’s pockets.
“Biden has no clue how to fix this problem.”
I don’t think that he, or anyone else in “leadership” WANT to “fix” it.
“Tax the rich” schemes always fail. One of the most prominent (that people don’t remember) is increased taxes on yachts. It had to be dropped when it (predictably) put people in the yacht construction and servicing sector out of work. Envy and green self-righteousness are ugly.