Every Adult in Britain Should be Forced to Carry ‘Carbon Ration Cards’
May 27th, 2008I have an idea about this carbon sinning nonsense. It goes back to Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm. In short: Because modern society destroys human identity, mindless conformity to all order of fascist, technocratic prison policies gives the masses a sense of belonging to something.
Religions worked for a while. The vengeful sky god was going to get you for sinning. In the olden days, God was constantly obsessed with what you did with your wee-wee. But the state needs something else to keep people on their toes now. We’re in the midst of fearing “the terrorists” now, but if you’ve ever seen a “Christian” who was paralyzed by all the sin in the world, change the word “sin” to “carbon” and you’ve got your wild eyed fart taxers. It’s the same animal. The allegedly rational, atheist, environmentalists are, like Fromm predicts, looking to sell themselves to another fascist overlord. This obsession with carbon is THE new religion and all purpose justification for political control.
You will know the fascists by their alleged solutions. Do their solutions free you or imprison you? Centralize power or distribute power? Build fellowship or resentment?
All fascists, no matter what the stripe, will offer up bad solutions to problems they created in the first place. Regardless of the nature of global warming, a national “ration card” is NOT the solution.
Or, maybe it is, if Fromm is correct.
Via: Daily Mail:
Every adult should be forced to use a ‘carbon ration card’ when they pay for petrol, airline tickets or household energy, MPs say.
The influential Environmental Audit Committee says a personal carbon trading scheme is the best and fairest way of cutting Britain’s CO2 emissions without penalising the poor.
Under the scheme, everyone would be given an annual carbon allowance to use when buying oil, gas, electricity and flights.
Anyone who exceeds their entitlement would have to buy top-up credits from individuals who haven’t used up their allowance. The amount paid would be driven by market forces and the deal done through a specialist company.
MPs, led by Tory Tim Yeo, say the scheme could be more effective at cutting greenhouse gas emissions than green taxes.
But critics say the idea is costly, bureaucratic, intrusive and unworkable.
The Government says it supports the scheme in principle, but warns it is ‘ahead of its time’.
The idea of personal carbon trading is increasingly being promoted by environmentalists. In theory it could be used to cover all purchases – from petrol to food.
For the scheme to work, the Government would need to give out 45million carbon cards – each one linked to a personal carbon account. Every year, the account would be credited with a notional amount of CO2 in kilograms.
Every time someone makes a purchase of petrol, energy or airline tickets, they would use up credits. A return flight from London to Rome would, for instance, use up 900kg of CO2 credits, while 10 litres of petrol would use up 23kg.
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The discussion titled, “Is the industrial way of life ultimately sustainable”, never happens in the MSM, (in which most people still place their trust as their source of information about their world). Most of us here (posting on this site), I’d think, would say the answer is “no”. But that’s a leap that’s pretty scary for the masses, and suicide for the MIC, etc. So instead, we “keep hope alive” for as long as we can, even if it means living like we’re 100 people trying to survived on a lifeboat big enough for 50, with rations enough for 20. It ain’t gonna be pretty.
Only in Britain could a policy so blatantly dystopian be openly touted. “Ahead of its time” indeed.
What’s troubling to me is the plentiful range of methods that promote environmental integrity in an entirely economic and market-driven way. Trying to create a market for carbon credits, where owning them means your freedom is restricted less, is the inverse of creating a market for renewable energy credits, where owning them means your freedom is empowered by the usage of appliances or EV miles, and so forth. Environmental benefits can be implicit in economic benefits.
The exponential growth of the industrial economy is the real problem – a system that doubles in size every 25 years; whatever the merits of the carbon tax, it amounts to a proverbial band aid on a tumor.
We have to grow more food between now and 2050 than in the prevous 10,000 years combined. That sums up the problem for me.