Posted on 02/20/2023 5:25:29 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
World War II-style rationing could be an effective way to reduce carbon emissions, according to new research from the University of Leeds. In a paper published today in the journal Ethics, Policy and Environment, academics argue that rationing could help states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions rapidly and fairly.
Policymakers have considered other schemes to reduce emissions, including carbon taxes and personal carbon trading schemes, but the researchers say these favor the wealthy, who could buy the right to pollute if trading were allowed.
The authors argue that carbon rationing would instead allow people to receive an equitable portion of resources based on their needs, therefore sharing out the effort to protect the planet.
Joint lead author Dr. Nathan Wood, who is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at Utrecht University's Fair Energy Consortium, said, "The concept of rationing could help, not only in the mitigation of climate change, but also in reference to a variety of other social and political issues—such as the current energy crisis."
Initially, governments could regulate the biggest polluters, such as oil, gas and petrol, long-haul flights and intensive farming, creating scarcity in products that harm the planet. Rationing could then be introduced gradually, to manage the resulting scarcity with the aim of meeting everyone's basic needs.
The academics identified two options for rationing policy. Policymakers could introduce an all-encompassing carbon allowance, giving out 'carbon cards' like bank cards to track and limit usage. Alternatively, governments could ration specifically selected goods, such as flights, petrol, household energy, or even meat or clothing.
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“—such as the current energy crisis.””
...there is no “energy crises” and this a-hole knows it. We have endless amounts of oil right here in the US allone.
To much government.
An extremely damaging and impractical solution to a non-problem. It will add misery to countless lives, to concentrate power to a select few. Sounds perfect!
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. [...] The eyeless crature at the other table swallowed it fanatically. passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams. Syme, too-in some more double complex way, involving doublethink-Syme, swallow it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory?”
― Orwell George, 1984
In other words, total government control over how you heat your home, how you commute, travel and live. And once the system is in place, they keep reducing the allocation, using the excuse of scarcity.
Said government enforcement employees could wind up as tractor food as well.
it is all about CONTROL.
“To much government”
Worst toast ever. :)
Vegan cricket rations.
Instead of rationing, maybe think about cleaning up the most polluted rivers in the world first.
The fairest thing would be that proponents of rationing give up all their jets, cars and big homes and eat bugs
Govern me harder daddy
Damned Brits. That stupid island cannot get over that the empire has been gone for 70 years and they do not rule the planet anymore. They and their great game are at the root of almost every problem in earth today. Middle East, China, Ukraine and Russia, Kuwait, Iran… all of em.
Like Germany, the Uk should STFU for another century or so.
Forces of evil In the UK in the war everything was rationed, even eventually after the war to force down internal consumption, potatoes were rationed. In part it was also because the wealthy mandarin Stafford Cripps who was treasury lord liked austerity for its own sake as a superior morality. That is what is being pushed her. State directed austerity and pain because it is good for you.
It is all about control which, the politicians and especially the millions of unelected bureaucrats (a.k.a., mini-tyrants) know from the Fauci Flu test run, can easily be implemented on a irrationally frightened, woefully ignorant American public, especially on tens of millions American “men”.
Probably killing off half of the world’s population would also help.
> allow people to receive an equitable portion of resources based on their needs <
Where did I hear a phrase like that before? Oh, yes. Now I remember.
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
Karl Marx
This thinking caused great misery and death in the USSR and in Red China.
But this time it will be different. Just because.
They are opposed to too much freedoming
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