ref1ect1ons Posted November 4, 2010 (edited) http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_why_you_may_soon_need_a_warmists_permission_to_eat From the Herald Sun Column - Why you may soon need a warmist’s permission to eat Andrew Bolt Wednesday, November 03, 2010 at 06:37am SO you think I exaggerate when I say global warming is just the latest cause of the closet totalitarian? Then pay close attention to an experiment the warmists are about to inflict on the people of Norfolk Island. Be warned. What’s being trialled there with $390,000 of Gillard Government money may, if it works, be spread to the mainland, say the researchers. Which means it’s coming for you. The plan - and, no, I’m not joking - is to put Norfolk Islanders on rations to fight both global warming and obesity. Funded by the Australian Research Council, and approved by the Socialist Left Science Minister Kim Carr, researchers from the Southern Cross University will give each volunteer on the island a “carbon card”. Every time they buy petrol, electricity or an air flight, they will have “carbon units” deducted from the fixed allowance on their card. More units will be lost each time they buy fatty foods, or produce flown in from a long way away. If, at the end of each year or so, they have carbon units left over, they can sell them. If they’ve blown their allocation, they must buy more. But each year, the number of carbon units in this market will be cut, causing their price to soar - and thus the price of extra food, power and petrol to rise - because the idea is to cut greenhouse gases and make Norfolk Islanders trim, taut and terrifically moral. Conservatives well aware of human fallibility will immediately spot the obvious flaw in this latest scheme of the Left to remake humanity. It’s this: what happens when people run out of their carbon rations, and can’t afford the extra units they need to buy more fuel, power or even food? This is precisely what I put this week to Garry Egger, head of this experiment and professor of Lifestyle Medicine and Applied Health Promotion at SCU. His response was astonishing and revealing, because this basic question - which so exposes the teeth of the totalitarian - would have been one you’d think he’d long wrestled with. After all, his personal carbon trading idea is not new, so much does it appeal to the fingerwaggers and bullies infesting the global warming faith. As far back as 2006, Britain’s then environmental minister, David Miliband, proposed a similar scheme, since endorsed by the Environment Agency and House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee, which even insisted the Government defy howls of protest from mere voters. “Widespread public acceptance, while desirable, should not be a pre-condition for a personal carbon trading scheme; the need to reduce emissions is simply too urgent,” the MPs said, before being driven off to dinner. (Or as our own Professor Clive Hamilton, author and former Greens candidate, puts it, global warming is so “horrible” that leaders must look to “canvassing of emergency responses such as the suspension of democratic processes”.) Nor is Egger’s idea new in Australia, The farcical “ideas summit” of prime minister Kevin Rudd’s 1000 “best and brightest” Australians also recommended it - which is a very good reason to be alert and alarmed. “We have the technology now to create a ‘carbon account’ for individuals,” says the summit’s report, in between appeals for chairbound workers to be given 30 minutes a day of exercise and stairs to climb at work. Yet although carbon rationing plans have been kicked around for years by the Left, that key question of the conservative has still not been answered. As in: what if people don’t want to live your dream? What if they rebel, or merely fail you? Let’s go to the transcript of my interview with Egger on MTR 1377 this week, to see how he answered. Me: What happens to those people who overdraw their carbon emissions ... Egger: In the first year you are just warned ... (Later) if you overspend, you’ve got to buy the units that are cashed in ... Me: If you put this in on the mainland and you were really strict about it - you really thought the world was warming very, very dangerously and someone exceeded their rations of these carbon units - one would presume that you would make food, for example, too expensive for them to buy. Egger: That’s right ... so if you’ve got, for example, a very fatty unhealthy food that is imported from overseas which takes a lot of carbon to develop it, then the price would go up ... Me: What happens to a very fat family, a very irresponsibly fat family, and they’ve blown their carbon budget to the scheissenhausen and you’ve made their food terribly expensive? What about the kids? They go to breakfast and they’ve got one baked bean? Egger: In general you’ll find that in a very fat family they are low-income earners ... so those people would actually benefit from a scheme like this because the food that they buy, the energy that they use, they don’t use as much energy as the rich anyway ... Me: But what happens? Their ration of carbon credits runs out and you’ve made food too expensive for them to buy. What happens to them? Egger: Again, they get money back from doing the right thing. Me: No, but they’ve done the wrong thing. That’s why they are fat and poor. They’ve done the wrong thing, they’ve run out of their carbon credits. What are you going to do to them then, when the food’s too expensive to buy? Egger: There are going to be personal cases like this that need to be worked out and they need to be worked out in the tax system as well as in the carbon credits system. Egger, founder of GutBusters, undoubtedly means to do good. He has no wish to see children starve. YET I think we have here an insight into a key failing of so many grand schemes of the Left to improve resistant humans or build for them someone else’s idea of the perfect society. These schemes so often are too perfect for the flawed humans they supposedly serve. But it’s the humans who must then adapt to the system, and not the other way around. Which is where some force is required; some democracy sacrificed. What a buzz for the closet totalitarian then, to bully other people “for their own good” - in this case, to “save the planet”. When the cause is so just, which planet-saver could let some contemptible fatty stand in their way, begging for the carbon credits to feed their chubby children? On the other hand, which planet-saver would deny themselves any aid or comfort in this great struggle? Need an illustration of what I’m talking about? Egger himself plans to jet off to Mexico next month to boast to a United Nations global warming conference how he persuaded Norfolk Islanders to ration just such joy flights for themselves. This is your future coming right at you, folks. Best you realise it’s no longer a joke. (Thanks to reader Burchell for the picture, taken at a San Diego restaurant.) The elite eugenicist have a plan, to ration our water, to ration everything we need for life, while they take in-excess (see James Cameron and Al Gore). Humans are pests that hurt nature and the Earth, we are no longer seen as a part of nature. Edited November 4, 2010 by ref1ect1ons Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TG83 Posted November 4, 2010 Can just see it now, a black market in bio diesel, olive oil and hamburgers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
occidentalis Posted November 5, 2010 Why are 'fatty foods' included in this ? because they are higher in carbon ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
synchromesh Posted November 5, 2010 I refuse to read this for the sole reason that it's written by Professional Idiot... Oh sorry, Andrew Bolt. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheFriendlyPlanter Posted November 6, 2010 I thought Gillard was keen to do not-much-at-all about climate change. This just sounds like an attempt to confuse things, and slow the progress that we're on the verge of making. As for Bolt, he sold his soul to the devil years ago. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ref1ect1ons Posted November 6, 2010 (edited) progress, huh. Are you prepared to tell me what statistics courses you have done yet QT. I have asked you several times after you asserted that I had not done any, when in-fact i have done three out of 4 offered in my course. So how many stats courses have you done QT? Edited November 6, 2010 by ref1ect1ons Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheFriendlyPlanter Posted November 12, 2010 progress, huh. Are you prepared to tell me what statistics courses you have done yet QT. I have asked you several times after you asserted that I had not done any, when in-fact i have done three out of 4 offered in my course. So how many stats courses have you done QT? WTF? maybe I just won't do as you tell me. I'm sorry if I hit a raw nerve or whatever but move on buddy. I don't really care who you are or what you've done ok, leave me alone. As for your stats, HOORAY FOR YOU!!! Good luck your course. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C_T Posted November 12, 2010 yeah, unfortunately this government does not know how to eat properly... how on earth is things nutritional value measured by fats? Don't they realise this obese population was created by the 5 food group pyramid scheme, its totally wrong and refined carbohydrates need to stop. Not fats, especially not omega fats. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
