Thursday's Absurdity of the Day: Are You Ready to Live a 19th-Century Existence?
It's a life you will all have to live soon if the climate alarmists have their way.
Don’t look now, but yet another new narrative is being pushed by the climate alarm lobby, and it is a doozy. This latest narrative goes something like this:
We’re all going to die in a ball of fire if we don’t stop this 2 degrees of projected warming from happening over the next 100 years. Or maybe it’s 1.5 degrees or maybe none at all will really happen, but hey, who’s counting?
Even though we’ve spent trillions and plan to spend many trillions more on subsidies for new technologies, it turns out those technologies really won’t be adequate to address this problem, which has always been just 10 years around the corner for the last 50 years.
So, in order to really, truly get the job done, the world will have to supplement all these trillions of dollars spent on technology by forcing everyone to go back to living a 19th-century existence.
You may think I’m kidding, but I’m not. Far from it. You don’t have to believe me – you can just review a new study released by climate alarmist researchers at England’s University of Leeds. Led by sustainability researcher Jefim Vogel, this new study, titled “Socio-economic conditions for satisfying human needs at low energy use: An international analysis of social provisioning,” posits that climate targets being laid out by the IPCC, the Paris Accords and other international bodies cannot be met by mere expansion of renewables and EVs alone.
The authors find that meeting those goals will further require severe “social provisioning,” which is just a softer-language term for “forced government rationing.”
So, what do they propose to be rationed by your friendly government bureaucrats?
· Start with your living space, where they propose that a family of 4 should have no more than 640 square feet, roughly the size of your 2-car garage. That should be no problem, right?
· Or how about your energy usage? These Leeds people propose that you be forced to limit your annual energy use to no more than the average Bolivian currently uses, or ~7,500 kWh per person. That’s less than 20% of what the average Texan currently uses.
· Then there’s transportation. They propose transportation miles for each person should be limited to no more than 3,000 to 10,000 miles per year, which is sure going to put a major crimp into the private jet usage of all those attendees of the various global “climate” conferences each year. But of course, the elites among us would surely find a way to exempt themselves from any such restrictions, since their needs are … well, more important than yours.
If you want to know how many proponents of the energy transition narrative want your real world to work, this study provides fascinating insight. Interestingly, the authors do not appear to have addressed how governments in the developed world should deal with the massive social unrest that will inevitably take place when they attempt to force such limitations on their citizens. Because that is what would happen in the real world if the U.S. or any other western government attempted to implement such draconian restrictions.
Yes, this is utterly absurd, but this really is what these people want to force you all to do, and you are about to witness it all becoming a big new narrative pushed by the corporate news media, entertainers and Democrat Green New Deal politicians.
Don’t shoot me: I’m just the messenger.
That is all.
Yup. Schumer and De Blasio had a news conference this morning in NY saying how the freak storm (caused by global warming) calls for serious climate change measures. Never let any crisis go to waste!