Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the (British) House of Commons
Sir Lindsay Hoyle told a gathering of counterparts from some of the world’s most powerful countries that the pandemic shows people are prepared to accept limitations on their lifestyles – if they recognise it is for the greater good.
He was surprised by the willingness of millions of people to wear masks and accept new rules, and said the urgent response the world has shown to deal with Covid-19 should now be harnessed to address climate change.
‘Dream on!’ Speaker Lindsay Hoyle slapped down for lockdown-style climate change rules | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
Now this:
In November 2020, the Red Cross proclaimed that climate change is a bigger threat than COVID and should be confronted with “the same urgency.” Bill Gates recently demanded dramatic measures to prevent climate change, claiming it will be worse than the pandemic. Despite millions of people having died from COVID, former governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney last year predicted that climate deaths will dwarf those of the pandemic. Lockdowns, which significantly reduced carbon emissions during 2020, could be the solution. After all, the EU’s climate service gloated, the first COVID lockdown may have saved 800 lives.
What would climate lockdowns look like? Most likely, cities and states would begin a gradual and discrete ramp-up of restrictions. During the early days of the pandemic, millions of Americans worked from home; this could become the permanent norm if special carbon taxes are put in place. Such taxes could be imposed on companies, limiting driving or air miles, and extend to individual employees. Drive to work in a car? You get hit with the tax. Children could be impacted by climate lockdowns, too. Schools, especially those heavily influenced by teachers’ unions, could impose permanent online-only days. Delhi, India is already using a version of this concept to crack down on smog pollution.
At the same time, either through direct government fiat or due to ineffective green energy policies, some areas of the country could regularly experience California-style rolling blackouts. And as fossil fuels (and nuclear power) go by the wayside, consumers may be prevented from buying new gasoline cars, lawnmowers, or chainsaws.
Source: Coming soon: Climate lockdowns? | TheHill
Some climate change enthusiasts are proposing to largely ban travel. They have decided travel is the cause of all climate issues. In fact, travel is a small component – about 70% of carbon emissions are due to electricity generation and industrial operations. About 30% is for transport – with about 10% due to transport of goods by ships, trucks and trains, and about 20% for use by both personal and business small vehicles (not large trucks). (Percentages are rounded for simplification and because they change over time.)
When you see this, you can see that this proposal is not about climate but about control over people. The global elite will still travel all they want and do as they please. The above actions, if undertaken broadly, would crash much of the world’s economies and have as much success controlling climate as their policies did controlling Covid – which is to say, none at all. But the elite will get richer still at no risk to them.
