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Posted on 11/19/2016 2:48:40 PM PST by blam
Eric Worrall
November 19, 2016
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.”
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Chinese emperors would be proud.
A new way to get money from the middle class.
Tax UK researchers to see less concern about climate change.
How about we tax intellectual elitists so we have fewer intellectual elitists.
When are they going to cut to the chase and admit they want to kill 6.5 billion human beings so they can live in the Walden paradise they think they deserve?
The Lear Jet Leftists expect to form the core of the global Green Inner Party. They will continue to enjoy the finest foods and most advanced gadgets the world has to offer — while deciding your fate for you.
If you work very hard and show them unwavering loyalty, you might be permitted to join the global Green Outer Party. Then you would be allowed occasional servings of meat - and air conditioning on a rationed basis.
The rest of us will eat insects and swelter – “for the good of the planet.”
Raising the price of food will save lives?
Duh ...
I am so glad we voted for sanity and are going to sh!tcan all of this nonsense.
CO2 is plant food.
It is not harmful.
Oxford (and Cambridge) are rapidly morphing into copies of formerly top American universities.
If it ain’t STEM, it ain’t sh*t.
Their Physics/Engineering/Math/etc faculties are without peer.
But even those famed science and humanities institutions cannot long overcome the constant attack of folks without morals, consciences, and...OK, I’ll say it...many smarts. And you know in which “departments” those clowns choose to live and spawn.
these people are dangerous. what about the elderly on fixed incomes and young people just starting out with young kids? Oh I see raised food price then put everyone on food stamps. Gee the future seems so bright with these people at the helm.They’re answer to everything is destroy people’s lives and income and future.
[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...]
Gentlemen, our (profitable) future is in famine.
CEO of Thorn Industries, after previous CEO dies under the ice while playing hockey - The Omen part II.
I would hang these globalist bastards
I have one question, is human activity inventing CO 2, or is it something that naturally exists?
It seems to me that it exists in nature, and burning oil, coal and wood just releases it. If that is true, we couldn’t possibly destroy the planet. There is not enough CO 2 that exists to do that, unless the entire atmosphere was CO 2, then plants decided to destroy the planet by giving out an icehouse gas, called Oxygen.
During the height of this past great depression II, a woman came on here and asked for recipe ideas on serving a can of beans and tortillas every night to her family of four.
Your government at work.
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Why not eliminate farms. We can hunt and gather instead. Call it progress.
Eat your kale!
Food tax Nanny State PING!
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