OK, I’m not going to repeat the list I put up here of one Eco-Socialist’s plot to achieve the UN’s IPCC plan to 45% decarbonize in 12 years. But go over there and read it again as a refresher. Otherwise, the comments below may not make much sense: I tried to warn the TreeHugger denizens “be careful of what you wish for.”
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My only reaction to this list is that it will take a Big Brother totalitarian government with the same reach and intrusiveness of what China is now doing with its “social credit” program – micromanaging almost every aspect of their “citizens” lives. Don’t do as they decree via survellience protocols (facial recognition, database mining, coercive incentives, et al) – you can’t leave the country – heck, you may not even be able to board a plane or a bus. Want a better education or a promotion? Toe the line – and in as much detail as the list that will govern almost every aspect of one’s life.
If your only goal is “anything to save the earth” (and I’ve been listening to these Doomsday diktats for over 50 years and as Wombling Wombat notes, they always seems to be at least a decade in the future) then the list apparently (in reading some of the commenters here) is just dandy. However, the above list must assume that everyone is of an average capability and one that is capable of living that way. It disregards the fact that many – young children, the ill, senior citizens – would be totally unable to live to those standards. It also assumes (yes, I know, London-centric) that everyone must live within a walkable urban area. Unless coercive force is used, many will reject that fiat outright.
If one’s goal is to live your life freely without the constant gaze of Big Brother (for that is what the above list requires), this is a very, VERY scary list. Any time that the “Common Good” is pushed to such height, the individual becomes a mere “cog in the machine” and ends up being viewed as a negative cost rather than a positive good.
Many of the good folks here would be willing to voluntarily adopt this standard of living – some already have. But what is your “remedy” for those of us that refuse? I live rather modestly but that list above strikes me as Draconian – and I am not alone. Forcing me into a city? Forcing me of my vocation (I’m a software engineer that depends on the Cloud), shoving me into living quarters sized closer to my now ancient dorm room than my smaller than average sized home? Telling me what I can eat and not eat – and when?
I stop here with the cognitive dissonance of it all: “(democracy must be free of outside interference)”. No, what the writer desires is to do away with it so as to create their own version of Utopia upon us all.
OK, one more thing – the Law of Thermodynamics states that for every action there is an opposite reaction. God help us all if the above starts to be enforced because there would be tremendous reactions to it – and much of it would not be all that civil.
It had to happen sooner or later! Always need to be playing chess – if a Government is that powerful to force you to live and obey each of the “suggestions”, just think of what else the Ruling Class of our Insufferable Elites would have it do next? That’s what folks ought to be considering in their invoking of the Law of Unintended Consequences a.s the “unknown unknowns” start to become the “horribleness knowns”.
One of my favorite memes (and yes, I take full credit for it) is “The Bigger the Government, the smaller the citizen.”
I truly believe in what the Founders knew. The best way to have a maximal amount of personal freedom is to have a limited (ok, highly restricted) government. We used to have that right up until the early 1900s when Woodrow Wilson was President. When the fall from Constitutional values accelerated (obviously, here in the US).
