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.
Please let them try. If there is anything that will burst the bubble it’s going after the rich.
“Behavior 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.
Club of Rome – the blueprint for ‘limits to growth’ creative destruction of industrial civilization.
Hardly ‘communist’ rather western genocidal eugenics.
Curiously, the nominal ‘communist’ nation is torpedoing this genocidal lurch, not the exceptional USA!
bonobo,
What western genocidal eugenics are you going on about? You do know that communist leaders have killed far more of their own people than western democracies ever have, don’t you?
Yeah, not gonna happen. Especially now that the Democrats are the party of the very wealthy and very poor in America. Even America’s “Climate Envoy” isn’t willing to give up his jet travel.
If all those that scream hardest about emission control would stay off their computers the problem would be solved with no economic disruption.
John Kerry be like…
Precisely so!
When Reagan tried putting a luxury tax on yachts thousands of boatbuilders in Maine , Rhode island and elsewhere became unemployed from the Unintended consequences .
Wasn’t Reagan. Bush.
Well, at least their approach would be unpopular with the likes of Al Gore, Bill Gates, etc!
Not that I am claiming that my enemy’s enemy is my friend.
This is a point they need to sell to the rich and the famous.
Ground John Kerry (and Leo Dicaprio).
how fine? 200 mesh?
So the beatings will continue until morale improves?
Beh Lih Yi, from the Berlin Hot or Cold Institute, who the hell are these people who put out this rubbish ?! But then it is Germany isn’t it . . the biggest bunch of left wing apologists in the world.
History shows that they messed badly last century and they are still trying to come to terms . .
China and Germany ideologically represent a clear and present danger to free humanity. Problem is China is just trolling, Germany actually believes the crap.
Berlin Hot or Cold Institute!!! The kind of title that inspires belief in their scientific & technical competence, sounds more like a title a kiddywink would invent to sound scientifcky & teknikal!!! Then again, begging the question, which is it, Hot or Cold???
So this global warming is all the fault of the capitalist countries!?!?!? It has been widely reported that China has been building and putting into service more coal burning plants than any other country. Does this mean that China is capitalist?
No!!! Have you ever heard of the saying, “A sheep in wolves clothing”??? The next bizarre step will be when the West start buying all our defensive weaponry from China, because it is so cheap, the circle will be complete!!!
Communists are great environmentalists. See the Aral Sea and the air just about anywhere in China (it’s very easy to see)
Yes, but all of them did it wrong… /sarc
A definition of “the rich” as viewed from the crazy leftist warped perspective, a person of means who must be cancelled and forced to accept welfare payments like them.
Otherwise known as killing the golden goose.
I don’t travel by private jet (anymore), I don’t travel on yachts (anymore), and my cardiologist has stopped me eating my favorite meats. How will this affect my lifestyle?
But it will cut into the lifestyles of the elites.
Bet you this idiot girl girl has never even seen snow.
Its not just heating, its the madness of comparing per capita emissions of a food and mineral exporting first world country with one of the largest landmasses in the world, to a food importing, high density developing country.
These watermelons want everyone down to a subsistence level of survival.
Yet again, the AGW true objective rears its ugly head!!! The writings of mass slaughter one way or the other are on the wall!!! I almost gave up reading this trash after the first couple of sentences!!! It’s utter drivel, then again, what’s new???
“towards a more holistic wellbeing economy,”
Sounds wonderful, but what does it mean? Does the person who used the expression have any idea? Has she any idea how we can create such an economy? And has it been approved by the advocates of Critical Race Theory?
Attacking the basics of a happy life – food, shelter, liberty and locking everyone in their current economic status by ending pro-growth policies. Sounds like tyranny to me.
“From banning private jets and yachts”
How about we start with John Kerry, Al Gore, et.al?
Weapons grade bollocks.