Posted on 10/03/2023 1:44:37 PM PDT by Twotone
In the Warsaw Pact, the state needed razor wire and armed guards. But in the west we're happy to build our own prison walls. Via our friend Marc Morano, here is the headline from a French poll:
41% des français favorables à la proposition d'un quota de 4 vols par personne dans une vie, avancée par l'ingénieur Jean-Marc Jancovici
Which means:
41% of French people support the idea of a quota of 4 flights per individual lifetime, proposed by the engineer Jean-Marc Jancovici
M Jancovici is not merely an engineer but an "expert du changement climatique" - a climate-change expert - so he knows whereof he speaks. Among those aged 18-35, 48 per cent are in favour of the proposition.
I am in France for medical reasons at the moment, and am quite enjoying the company of the under-35s I encounter. But it is sobering to reflect that apparently half of them support restricting the citizenry to four flights per lifetime - or at least feel it's prudent to say so when asked. Were this policy to be implemented in the next few weeks, I would never see New Hampshire again. And France is the world's Number One tourist destination, with over twice as many visitors per annum as its nearest rivals. Yet they're willing to take the hit in the cause of lowering sea levels in the Maldives in the twenty-first century.
Will Bill Gates and Al Gore be restricted to four flights per lifetime? Oh, don't be ridiculous.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
It’s so funny. Steyn is one of those article writers who, every time I read his stuff, I can’t help but imagine him saying it to me in person. In Steyn’s case, with his signature accent as “the EIB network’s undocumented immigrant from Canada manning the Ice Station in New Hampshire”.
This was Frank’s song in the universe where America embraced totalitarianism/big brother in the 1930s...
This also would have been a great Rush Limbaugh parody song entry to a “big brother update” segment...
I’m gonna start now as a broker in Flight Offsets. This oughta be good.
Marking.
France was this close to voting for the Communists after WWII.
Yes, sadly.
I swear, these eco warriors are nothing but con artists and bullies.
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