The Climate Change Committee issued its “Seventh Carbon Budget” this week, and if it gets its way, and it always has, and the last six reports were fully accepted by the government of the day, our lives will never look the same.
What you eat, how often you go to Barbados or Malaga, how many jumpers you buy and if you have a car will be controlled. It is also worth noting that the Climate Committee is a quango made up of climate activists. There is only one direction that they will move in. We are the problem and the global elite running the UK and the world will change your habits to save the planet. But I wonder if you know how much of your life is within their target range?
The Climate Change Committee could be about to make your life miserable in five ways - Renee HoenderkampGetty Images
Well as part of unpicking that, it is important to realise that the Climate Change Committee is not coming up with these plans to suck every little bit of joy out of your life alone.
This is not a UK plan. So when I read this report, it wasn’t a shock, because when I first read about this, it was from various committees at the UN and WEF and big contractors like ARUP2 laid it bare in their C40 cities report in 2019.
And what is C40 Cities? C40 Cities is a network of mayors from major cities around the world working together to make their cities net zero. And yes all of our major city mayors are signed up. Arup is a global engineering and design firm that specialises in sustainable development - and their C40 cities report details very clear targets on just about every area of our lives and it is stark.
They have wide-ranging progressive targets for 2030 and then ‘ambitious targets’ which is their dream world. And don’t be fooled into thinking that a major construction firm would be looking only at your bricks and mortar. No ARUP have targets covering your cars, flights, clothing purchases and eating habits. And trust me, if they achieved the ambitious targets, no, if they achieved their 2030 targets, in my life, it would make it unbearably miserable.
Let's take a look at those targets.
Do you like driving? Well, I’m afraid you can forget that.
The 2030 target will see car ownership reduced to just 190 cars per 1000 people
The ambitious is of course zero cars.
Do you like flying, there won’t be much of that, and Barbados will be out.
The 2030 target will restrict you to just one short haul flight every two years.
The ambitious stretches that to one short haul flight every three years.
Do you like clothes? Well you won’t be buying many new ones.
The 2030 target will allow you to buy eight items a year.
The ambitious will see you buying a paltry three items.
And of course, there is meat – do you like meat? Well, you may have to change your appetite.
The 2030 target will see meat eating restricted to 16kg meat per person per year (the average UK person currently eats 61kg of meat a year on average).
And of course the ambitious target will see us eating zero meat.
And as for dairy. None of that filthy stuff I’m afraid.
As I said, a life with no car, very few short haul holidays, no long-term ones, as a vegan with hardly any new clothes – that is the very antithesis of what I consider a joyful life.
It also makes me think about the farmers who are being driven out of business around the world. In the UK, we are doing it with inheritance tax, making them commit a percentage of their land to rewilding or tree planting and suggestions of a reduction in herd sizes coming soon. In Holland, they have literally paid farmers to exit farming as a business, with plan to reduce livestock by 25 per cent. And so it goes on, in lockstep around the world. You can see why they don’t care about farmers going bust. It’s all coming together.
The plan is to get rid of meat, planes, dairy, cars…for us, not them. And while we go about our lives, these massive corporations, quangos and elite global organisations are working at full speed to introduce controls to every aspect of our lives. If they succeed, they may (and that is doing a lot of hard work) save the planet but we will be impoverished and all joy sucked out of life – there will be no reason to live.
If, however, you are reading this, and your head is melting with it and your internal self is screaming no, you need to release them and scream out loud. Read the reports I have referenced and take action. Lobby your MP, if you have social media, use it to let others know and to say no loudly and clearly. If we don’t act now, it will be too late and at that point you will own nothing and you won’t be happy.
