Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Joanna Lumley, whose glamorous high flying lifestyle includes long holidays in Bhutan, the Swiss Alps, and at least one trip on the Trans Siberian Railway, wants ordinary people’s leisure activities and travel to be restricted by a climate rationing system.
Joanna Lumley says wartime-style rationing could help solve climate crisis
Actor proposes system under which people would have limited points to spend on holidays and luxury items
Nadia Khomami
Arts and culture correspondent
@nadiakhomamiTue 26 Oct 2021 10.01 AEDTJoanna Lumley has suggested that a system of rationing similar to that seen during wartime, under which people would have a limited number of points to spend on holidays or lavish consumer goods, could eventually help to tackle the climate crisis.
The Absolutely Fabulous actor, who has long campaigned against single-use plastic, said legislation could be the only way to curb the amount of waste produced by the public. “These are tough times, and I think there’s got to be legislation,” she told the Radio Times.
“That was how the war was – stuff was rationed – and at some stage I think we might have to go back to some kind of system of rationing, where you’re given a certain number of points and it’s up to you how to spend them, whether it’s buying a bottle of whisky or flying in an aeroplane.”
Lumley, who has been involved in conservation work, said that while many people remained poor, it was largely “the western world that stuffs its face and chucks stuff away”.
“Perhaps people have got to think a bit harder,” she said. “Maybe more of our holidays should be at home or taking trains, and not hopping on a plane to Magaluf for the weekend … Every plastic bottle you don’t buy, every piece of litter you pick up, every piece of meat you don’t eat, every small thing counts.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/26/joanna-lumley-wartime-rationing-solve-climate-crisis
Joanna Lumley famously played a dissolute hedonist in the hit series “Absolutely Fabulous“.
I understand Joanna’s call for climate rationing. When someone lives a life as privileged as Joanna Lumley, why would they want ordinary people cluttering up their favourite Swiss ski slope?
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I am not sure of the value of posting these nonsense diatribes by has been actors, as if they are authorities on anything but bad acting.
WUWT has bigger fish to fry, of the scientific and political type.
Makes a change from laughing at Mike Mann.
No one is forcing you to participate. These breaks from the hard grind of digging through mountains of irrelevant “science” are why WUWT has such a large following. If we can’t share the occasional sneer at the professionally pretentious, where’s the fun in being superior?
If you feel your time would be better spent elsewhere then please don’t let us stop you.
Yes, the indignant comments about lectures from the privileged are right.
But the really interesting thing is the characteristic demand that ‘we’, in this case the British, restrict ourselves in the interests of saving the planet.
Ms Lumley appears persuaded that these restrictions, a return to 1940s rationing, will in some way have an effect on the planet and its climate.
She genuinely has not considered how much effect. No-one has pointed out to her that if the UK and all its emissions vanished, the effect on global emissions would be on the border of being too small to measure, and the effect on temperature definitely in the margin of error so definitely too small to measure.
The characteristic idiocy of the green movement, to advocate doing things in the name of affecting the climate which, if their theory is correct, can have no effect on it.
If they were living in Tuvalu and persuaded that the country is at risk from rising sea levels, and that these were caused by global CO2 emissions, their solution would be for Tuvalu to move to wind powered electricity. Which, on their theory, would be guaranteed to make no difference to the local sea level.
But it would use all the funds they could otherwise use to build up sea defences.
There’s a complete disconnect between the means they advocate and the ends which they use to justify them.
michel, my reply to anyone that suggests that “we” (without saying exactly who is this “we”) should do something detrimental to ourselves is “You go first!”
Is that toxin-free make up? And how are rhinestones made?
Joanna, prove with actual data, that there is an “emergency” for which we need to do ANYTHING.
Note: model projections and handwaving by MSM and climate activists are not “data”.
Lose your religion. Self-moderation is the principal principle.
Who will win the coveted Griff Award in Climate Acting this year? Only the troll committee knows.
Citizen calls for Actress Expert to change hair color.
What climate crisis is that Miss Lumley?
I am sure you are suffering for being in the great outdoors in such dangerous weather you fear so much……
UK been there, done that & it was like this –
What about rationing airtime for these aged skin carriers?
Just part of the celebrity gaslight op to convince people that AGW is a scam. She gets to stay popular for spewing this nonsense while at the same time guaranteeing that any legislation that would harm her standard of living will never happen because of the rank hypocrisy of people like herself.
So, she as just as dumb as the character she portrayed in Absolutely Fabulous.
Those are NOT her real teeth, y’know.
Fake teeth. Fake concerns. I hope she enjoys the rough ride that the bandwagon is heading toward.
To be honest, if this is true, it would surprise me about her a lot. Typically she’s very down to Earth and level headed person.
I would hold off on the pitchforks for the time being and look to see if she’s been misquoted or mischararacterised. In the Grauniad? Surely not!!
I would take the story with a pinch of salt.
It appears that sanctimony develops with age in some people. Look at Stephen Hawking, who started off being brilliant and gradually deteriorated into a climate idiot during his last days. Britain appears to gave caught the AGW disease worse than most places. They are a people very persuaded by group-think and mass hysteria.
Social climate credits ?
Oh the irony of stealing a communist playbook control method from the country that emits almost a 3rd of what they claim is the problem. Why not just come out and say “I want communism in my own country, and I want to be part of the ruling class so I can make the people live a miserable existence slaving after my needs “.
Let’s get her named a UN Messenger for Peace with a special focus on climate change. Like that other great environmentalist, Leonardo DiCaprio. /sarc
On second thought, she needs more yachts, private jets, and oversized mansions in order to have that title. Gotta keep up with the DiCaprios.
No one should get more than their fair share of climate. Especially a frivolous, purposeless, narcissistic screen filler. The total lack of insight is breathtaking given how much time she must spend admiring herself in the mirror.
I propose once your share of climate is overdrawn you can be relocated to central Antarctica till you earn back some credits. We could even have a climate trading system. I’ll give you my snow days if you give me your beach days, Northern Scotland can make a killing selling windy days to the folks in Germany,
Ab Fab Jo but before you make a pretty little ass
(The type that is not firm and pink as people might think
But is grey, has long ears and eats grass)
of yourself listen to a word from our glasgow cartoon mascot
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x9115smlrctf6sk/Alternative%20Glasgow%20Mascot.pdf?dl=0
Joanna wouldn’t have a job if she didn’t say stuff like this.
You have absolutely no idea how woke and politically active the UK theatre and TV is . If you don’t go along with it, you are out of a job and cancelled.
“In 2019, Fox told The Times that he had been “totally radicalised” by watching YouTube videos about “woke culture” and “political correctness”
“In November 2020, Fox was dropped by his talent agency Artists Rights Group after comments he made on the Question Time TV programme. He had been dropped by his previous managers Authentic Talent in March of the same year.”
He hasnt been seen on TV since.
She told a group of us, gathered around on a TV shoot some years ago that she never wanted to be an actress (that explains a lot), she wanted to be a ballet dancer but she was too tall, taller than most of the ‘male’ ballet dancers. Ballet is not a ‘comedy’ (except in a Xmas panto) but a serious theatrical art, as she put it.
Sky News Australia – Daniel Craig of Bond Fame, might play Christopher Steele, a personal friend, in a proposed bio. This Steele ruined Trump’s Presidency with Dearlove (ex MI6 boss of Steele) Dodgy Dossiers.
So one wonders who might play those Moscow Hotel ¨working women¨ of Steele’s Dossier Fame?
Hmmm – let auditions begin!
I wonder who they’ll get to play Sergei Skripal and Pablo Miller, an ex MI6 agent and reputably Skripal’s ex handler and friend (both living in Salisbury) – Miller was also reputedly a consultant with Steele’s firm, Orbis, who compiled the dossier.
After climategate was rerun as ¨The Trick¨, I propose ¨The Artful Dodger¨ for the russiagate rerun. A Dickens character.
They would want to be careful with Novichock on-set – just look what happened to Alec Baldwin! Not sure if he would take the role!
Oh that’s all right – the only person who died from Novichok sprayed it on herself all over as she thought it was perfume. Everyone else, including the guinea pigs, were fine. It’s the BZ gas that was the problem – disorientation, hallucinations, complete lack of coordination, then unconsciousness and some long-term side effects with breathing.
There was I thinking Porton Down was Pinewood. Silly me.
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/bond-25-filming-salisbury1
With “Novichock”, even a real child toy water gun can be a mu-eller sorry -rder weapon
Who is this twit and why would anyone care what she thinks?
Welcome to Victoriastan where we have lived under a State of Emergency for most of the last 18 months, with restrictions during six lockdowns totalling 267 days (the world’s longest) including a 5km travel limit, a 9pm curfew, 1 hour allowed for exercise, closed “non-essential” shops, no tourists allowed in or out of the state. Many Australians caught overseas have been unable to return. Police can fine those who are caught breaking these rules that are created overnight by a stroke of the pen of the Chief Health Officer.
Joanna Lumley is unable to stop acting. She believes she is the elitist snob she portrayed for years.
Just another actor/actress who’ve stifled their critical thinking skills in favor of pretending emotion and parroting consensus talking points.
“Perhaps people have got to think a bit harder,” she said.’ You’d have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.