The study, conducted by a team of researchers from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food at the University of Oxford and the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington DC, is the first global analysis to estimate the impacts that levying emissions prices on food could have on greenhouse gas emissions and human health.
The findings show that about one billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions could be avoided in the year 2020 if emissions pricing of foods were to be implemented, more than the total current emissions from global aviation.
Imagine how much ‘green house gas’ would be saved if nutters like this stopped proposing complete lunacy.
Taxing foodstuffs is like asking for insurrection among the peasants against the elites.
Mere food survival is not a sin, but these clowns want you make you feel guilty for injesting a meal.
They want to make eating a ‘sin against climate’!
Windbaggery has run amok.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
What a bunch of hogwash!!!!!
There are many people who can barely afford to eat as it is now. I suppose if enough people starve to death the planet will cool.
Stop the madness!
How about a ban on all air transport for all government employees (this includes the parasites at the CBC), politicians, academics, rent seekers, media and ENGOs for anything related to climate change. They can all conduct their prayer circles and pep rallies online.
They are prepared to starve people and reduce them to poverty over their global warming scam. Can we start shooting yet?
In our household we don’t begin a meal with “Bless us O Gaia…”
…we still use the “Bless us O Lord…” for its redeeming qualities.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
This is your classic leftist two-fer … actually a multi-fer:
1. A food tax would line the global Warmist command and control coffers like no other tax possibly could.
2. A food tax that targets meat and dairy would cut down on bovine out gassing, thus reducing (by some infinitesimal amount) Co2.
3. A food tax would lead to the starvation deaths of millions of humans, without a single gas chamber being built. Hence lightening the load on Gaia
4. A food tax would take even MORE disposable income out of the pockets of the (shrinking) middle class resulting in even fewer “things” being purchased, thus lightening the load on Gaia.
And yes, of course this is not satire, I have no doubt that there were many meeting rooms in the bowels of UN headquarters filled with AGW ghouls concocting ever more methods of stealing money from the productive classes. Ever more methods of “controlling” the population.
“The findings show that about one billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions could be avoided in the year 2020 if emissions pricing of foods were to be implemented, more than the total current emissions from global aviation.”
That’s the ticket. Starve the poor so the climate worshippers can use the carbon credits to jet to their gabfests. How about it Ms. McKenna?
It’s settled science that mass starvation lowers emissions. Then again there is the problem of future decomposition. No worries – blame the oceans.
Pray to the gods of entropy. Pray!!
Taxing food. Great idea. Real boost for the poor, eh?
The Oxford group claims taxing food would “save half a million lives” annually!
Rather ironic coming from a group that claims the second worst problem the planet faces is over population.
As said above,when do we start shooting?
The hand of Suzuki has a far reach. He talked about forcing people back to growing their own food. Food taxation achieves that. A population of 1 billion is the goal and slow but sure starvation is the path. Bringing the water to boil slowly enough keeps the frog from jumping out of the pot.
The problem with carbon tax? The inelasticity of demand for energy. People are not going to stop heating and lighting their homes. People are not going to stop transporting goods or themselves. Elasticity will only come when the economy is destroyed and poor old people freeze to death in their homes like is happening in Europe. Then energy consumption will crash.
No doubt, the leftists will spread this “good” news using their latest Apple iThingies, which require the fastest Internet (and all those huge power-hog server farms needed to support it), built in China, and transported by rail (which requires electricity or diesel fuel to run the locomotives) to the coast and then across the ocean by ship (which burn bunker fuel).
Yup, that’s a real Earth-saving method, isn’t it?
LEAD?
Rusty serrated edge is more their likely fate.
Amusing how history repeats, a totally useless woman once said”Let them eat cake”, in response to the lack of bread for the peons/peasants.
Now a Committee of Totally Useless Parasites (TUP) says “Tax the starving”.
The Maori solution of Puha and Pakeha immediately leaps to mind.
Can’t cure stupid, but they may yet serve to some good.
Don’t stop now.
Put a tax on sex and be done with it.
Even for talking about it or thinking about it.
That reminds me.
Doctor told me to cut out half my sex life.
But I don’t know which half I should cut out – the half I spend thinking about or the half I spend talking about.
Yes, this would give a whole new meaning to Hitler’s gas chambers and Stalin’s Gulags.
It is almost unbelievable the extent to which the AGW fraud has led to madness among the elite.
Just take a look behind the curtain… it’s NOT about reducing emissions, but instead about just one more way for the government to extract taxes from it’s poorest citizens.
It’s also a clue that they are getting desperate about the financial solvency of their all-providing government.
A tax on sex? Monty Python thought of that one years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmgcylAxjfY
“The Oxford group claims taxing food would “save half a million lives” annually!”
Sort of like how the Nazis saved the lives of six million Jews.
I’m envisioning a huge black market opportunity for venison, beef and other meat products. Sin taxes and government rationing are excellent wealth generators for certain types of individuals. Unfortunately it also makes criminals out of formerly law abiding citizens. Much like the failed Canadian gun registry.
It also proves that academics, activists, msm journalists and progressive politicians are powerful, yet oblivious allies to the alt-right and libertarians. Their inability to control their control freak tendencies ensures a growing occurence of FU elections as regular people become fed up with micromanagers , job destroyers and pro-poverty economic policies.
It would have the added benefit of trimming the population.
“Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.”
Brexit will be another litmus test as to whether democracy in the west still exists or is an illusion.
Suzuki said it in 1984: Get the people back to the land growing their own food as part of a technology free subsistence existence where nature determines longevity. A tax on “certain” foods sounds like a key piece of the plan to get the human population below 1 Billion. It’s just a matter of time until all food is taxed similarly. The bet is the frogs in the pot won’t decide to jump out if its’ brought to a boil slow enough.
Brilliant ! Where do I find a breeding pair of deer ? I can partition the rear yard and start my homegrown venison business. I just checked my local ordinances and discovered my zoning only restricts “livestock” … but says nothing about keeping WILD life. Or, as I will call it … “wildlife Rescue”. The “rescue” part is for the human lives I will save with animal protein. I envision my family becoming as RICH as a Kennedy ! Go for it UN !
Their science is fraudulent…cattle are carbon negative.
http://grassbasedhealth.blogspot.ca/2012/08/cattle-emissions.html
Thus, for every pound of carbon “emitted” by a cow on grass, 3.2 pounds of carbon are fixed in plant roots, uneaten plant debris, or the cow herself or her calf. Even if we say that 100% of carbon she ingested is emitted (a biological impossibility!), there’d be 2.9 pounds of carbon fixed for every pound emitted! Beef cattle are carbon negative!
I’m assuming sarcasm.
As Kate would put it, we just let the deer eat lead. Nature breeds and feeds them for free. In my case, I could just leave the garden gates open and learn archery, they come to us. Around here they are abundant, tasty, tree and plant eating pests. City people who like affordable, natural red meat might want to befriend people in rural areas and small towns.
It is impossible to exaggerate the lunacy of what passes for research from esteemed universities these days. Peer review,
oversight, common sense does it actually exist at Oxford? Probably not. What is scary is that the last century showed there are plenty of people prepared to starve millions to death over some zealous socialist utopia. These green fanatics would do it again if ever given the means.
Canada emits a lot of Co2 because people have the temerity to heat their homes and grow, deliver food to where most live.
Why is that so hard to grasp? Governments were they serious could set all thermostats in their buildings at 55 F cancel all unnecessary air travel and all AC. It would do nothing whatever to affect climate, but they could be seen to be “Doing something”
Come on y’all. You know this is about Soylent Green (and now try new Soylent Red).
In any case, if you’d like to see and hear the lead author speak about his plan, you can look here:
http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/view/549
So they diverted a huge chunk of the corn crop to making ethanol and it raised the price of beef.
Now they want to make beef even more expensive.
The tax should be on Business Class ( and above ) airfare and on private jets. Say 1000%.
No need to panic, the tax-and-starve-em folks at Oxford may have already been outsmarted by a farmer…
P.E.I. farmer assists in near-eradication of methane from cow farts!!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-cow-farting-1.3856202
“Ruminant animals are responsible for roughly 20 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions globally, so it’s not a small number,…We’re talking numbers equivalent to hundreds of millions of cars.” “He says the biggest challenge will be growing enough seaweed.”
So they diverted a huge chunk of the corn crop to making ethanol and it raised the price of beef.
Ethanol is a scam to subsidize farmers but it’s not a cause & effect relationship that raised the price of beef. The spent mash from making ethanol is still fed to animals, it’s a profitable by-product that’s not wasted.
“When two things occur successively we call them cause and effect if we believe one event made the other one happen. If we think one event is the response to the other, we call it a reaction. If we feel that the two incidents are not related, we call it a mere coincidence. If we think someone deserved what happened, we call it retribution or reward, depending on whether the event was negative or positive for the recipient. If we cannot find a reason for the two events’ occurring simultaneously or in close proximity, we call it an accident. Therefore, how we explain coincidences depends on how we see the world. Is everything connected, so that events create resonances like ripples across a net? Or do things merely co-occur and we give meaning to these co-occurrences based on our belief system? Lieh-tzu’s answer: It’s all in how you think.”
― Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living
“Ruminant animals are … equivalent to hundreds of millions of cars.”
Yeah, and I’m not the least interested in riding a cow or water buffalo.
I think that the greenhouse gas that the Oxford Professoriate are targeting is methane which is supposedly a stronger contributor to the CAGW hysteria money bandwagon than CO2.
Venezuela is a perfect example of what happens when people move from the villages where they can feed themselves to the urban mega-slums where they can’t. If non-productive people starve to death because of their own foolish choices, then it’s not my problem, nor am I obligated to help in any way.
…and what does any of this have to do with eating LEAD?
Good point! … In my neighborhood, I have learned (the hard way) which plants are “deer candy”. All I need to do is replant those, build a heated blind attached to my second-floor rear bedroom and pick them off with my silent bow and night vision goggles. I can do it on the natch.
If I am hungry or my family is starving I will take everything that those who caused the problem have accumulated.
Yes, Agreed that the hand of Suzuki reaches far….but a much larger hand now rests on the Progressive Pansy’s Shoulder – Mr Gerald Butts. He who has publicly stated that world population needs to be brought down to “sustainable” levels.
This kind of climate change garbage is what will lead us to a “Hunger Games” world… and I so loved the ending…
In the interim, I’m with Bruce: ..The tax should be on Business Class ( and above ) airfare and on private jets. Say 1000%…”