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 thats something policymakers gathering this week at the Marrakech climate conference will take note of.
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Tax, tax, tax. Do they not have any other ideas?
Yes, there is a lot of wasted food - by restaurants and stores - because of the phony expiration date formula.
Are they suggesting that we kill a few more people? In and out of the womb. Or, perhaps let disease, viruses and poisonous snakes take over the human race.
How about these so-called researchers limit their food intake to grass and clover. Then we can milk them instead.
a fun inconvenient truth the left doesnt want the public to be aware of:
The left owudl have use beleive there is a thick sheet of plastic surrounding the earth preventing all the heat that rises fro mthe planet from escaping- and bouncing all that heat right back at us
Bzzzzt-
CO2 only absorbs approx 8% of the heat leavign earth- and only 1% of the heat that leaves the earth is IR- (Nasa claims 40+% but there is no consensus- most apparently claim 1%)
The rest of the 99% being conduction, convection and evaporation
Bottom line? Very Very little heat is even captured by CO2- and even less is actually back radiated in the right direction to make its way back to earth to warm the globe
Bonus inconvenient truth- mans CO2 production comprises just 0.00136% of the earths atmosphere- far far far too little to capable of capturing, holding, then back radiating enough heat ot cause global climate change- (The atmosphere is comprised of just 0.04% CO2 - man is responsible for just 3.4% of that or so- 3.4% of 0.04% = 0.00136%)
In taking on lawmakers pushing for a cap-and-trade plan to deal with emissions, Steward tells Whispers that hes worried that the legislation will result in huge and unneeded taxes. Worse, if CO2 levels are cut, he warns, food production will slow because plants grown at higher CO2 levels make larger fruit and vegetables and also use less water. He also said that higher CO2 levels are not harmful to humans. As an example, he said that Earths atmosphere currently has about 338 parts per million of CO2 and that in Navy subs, the danger level for carbon dioxide isnt reached until the air has 8,000 parts per million of CO2.
Fact: Since 1999, multiple technical, peer reviewed articles have been available that demonstrate exactly the opposite conclusion. CO2 changes lagged temperature changes as temperature increased or decreased. Temperature changed and then, several hundred years later, CO2 levels changed. Since a cause does not follow an effect, this indicates that CO2 is not a primary driver of climate change.
http://plantsneedco2.org/default.aspx?menuitemid=371
There is a movement among the greenies at the UN to promote eating insects— apparently they are high in protein, and don’t produce much carbon.
I doubt that UN staff will be dining on insects at the NYC restaurants they frequent, though. Funny how that works.
I get the feeling that much of the world subscribes to this climate change nonsense including a large chunk of the US. Nothing is stopping them from voluntarily paying a tax.
Are you sure “tax” was the word you meant to use?
The world tide is with Trump.
We need to have a complete remake of the intelligentsia, and eradicate these political hacks from our research institutions.
We need a tax on researchers. Researcher Stupidity to Humanity tax.
To be clear, its a tax all researchers must pay.
That’s because Socialism is for the people, not the Socialists.
Alrighty then.
Trump may decide to tax UK Researchers 35% before their bovine excrement can get published.
I love stories like this; keep it coming, Chicken Littles, you’re just pushing more and more into questioning just what’s going on...
I think the most effective way to reduce Climate Change is to eat leftists.
Once they are gone, no one will mention it again, and everyone will be surprisingly satiated.
Death to the peasants, endgame from the globalist.
Cults feed their members a low protein diet in order to weaken them
Bonus: Lack of protein in the diet reduces critical thinking skills.
No more revolutions against the Establishment!
Hipster hunters would starve because they won’t be able to find the non-GMO gluten-free vegan tacos
Maybe they can have barista’s hunt and gather for them.
Tax rate should increase for each year of schooling beyond bachelor’s degree. The rate increase should be exponential.
Won’t happen!!!!
So THAT is why we have climate change.... TAXES on food aren’t high enough.
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