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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Joanna Lumley and all her actor friends should set an example and show the public over the next two years this can work before we consider. This will of course impact on all her travelling and flying around.
The Phantom Of The Opera – Andrew Lloyd Webber Cover – Luke Murgatroyd & Jessica Hackett
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or maybe this one…
Phantom of the Opera – Sierra Boggess & Ramin Karimloo (Classic BRIT Awards 2012)
Lumley was the ‘clown’ on stage and in real life she doesn’t dissapoint . .
Apart from an ability to act, what are Joanna Lumley’s qualifications in the area of science, economics, and human behaviour?
I bet she is quite clued up on the latter.
Ms. Lumley is currently voicing a commercial for Antarctic cruises on UK TV stations.
https://www.hurtigruten.co.uk/destinations/antarctica/great-explorers-and-solar-eclipse/?_hrgb=3
Obviously zero impact on the environment (flights included) or I’m sure she wouldn’t be associated with the operators.
Maybe Hurtigruten needs to be informed of their spokesperson’s position on personal travel.
Why are the people who say the most about climate change in the media the ones who are responsible for more the most GHG emissions (per capita) from their travels, housing, consumption & lifestyle?
Do as I say, not do as I do. Wanting others to suffer & make the sacrifices that the VIPs (elites/gov/celebs) don’t have to make.
You should see the rubbish from Asia & Africa & South America, Islands… if they don’t have proper rubbish management it piles up beside the water & ends up in the seas & oceans. Everything is taken there in smaller sale units (because they can’t afford buying in bulk) & everything is single units packaged with plastic, nothing goes back.
I’ll go along with rationing as long as EVERYBODY must follow it. No buying directly. The rich must suffer with the rest of us. Prison time for those buying and selling rationed goods outside of the system. No more private jets, yachts, or other luxury items without the cost of running them is paid with ration tickets. If we are going to war, then everyone suffers, not just the poor and middle class. I would propose giving military volunteers double ration books. No sparing government appointees, Congress people, or Supreme Courts employees.
To fight climate change she should put herself into very strict climate lockdown for as long as possible but she is not doing that. If the use of fossil fuels is bad then she should not make use of any goods or services that involve the use of fossil fuels but she is not doing that. I bet that the clothes she wears were once moved to market by truck.
You have to remember that these people live in a rarified air so completely removed from the real world. A place where David Attenborough is the almighty. I have watched some if this woman’s self indulgent travel shows – not for her but for the scenery. She is cringe-worthy. Doing a bit of research before the show and wallowing in the delusional superior knowledge she possesses while she sips a drink and luxuriates in the warn breeze of her latest exotic location. It’s all really quite nauseating.
The facade has slipped off the ugly climate change beast and now we are seeing their endgame.
Power and Privilege.
Obviously success as an actress has not made her smart.
She was not born during WWII and was too young to know about the gas shortage caused by the Suez Canal War in 1956. Taxi driver were turning off their engines going down hill and only had parking lights on at night as in WWII.
Rationing is used when resources are need elsewhere, not for an unproven theory with no indication of the disaster being predicted.
hypocrite
Lets ration her makeup first.
That wasn’t Joanna saying that, it was Patsy
ROFL 🙂
Rationing is a collectivist dream.
Well here’s the upmarket version of Joanna and a ‘huge milestone’ for Oz-
Progressive organisations recognise the importance of developing demand response capabilities to support their sustainability objectives and are seizing this opportunity. The market urgently needs new, flexible resources to balance renewables and replace retiring coal generation.
We think that all energy users, whether large or small, should have the opportunity to provide wholesale demand response, so we support the mechanism being extended to households as well as small businesses
“Huge milestone” as AEMO switches on demand response in major market reform | RenewEconomy
Which opportunity would you prefer to be deplorables? Wholesale Demand Response Mechanisms or Virtual Power Plants?
They’ll make the points transferable, and she can buy her many many trips from the poor. She’ll never feel a difference.
You first Joanna.
so her botox bleach n choppers are all certified carbon free?
daft cow
We should listen and follow Lumley.
Because she is better than us.
I’m betting the bleach in her hair is making a large contribution to worldwide poisoning of the water systems.
BTW, we already have “a limited number of points to spend on holidays or lavish consumer goods“. It’s called money. And most of us already have a lot less of it than she does. (Though, for the life of me I can’t think of anything I’ve seen her in.)
Hypocrites all!
Ms. Lumley,
Let’s start with you rationing the amount of red grease applied to your lips.
BTW, I honestly never hear of the “hit” TV series “Absolutely Fabulous” until just now reading this article.
Someone explain to the hapless Lumly that this Earth is 4000,000,000 million years old!
Climate is in constant change.
thinking that humans have influence is based upon ignorance and arrogance
In previous centuries it was understood that actors were mostly degenerates and whores and nobody cared about their opinions.