Cambridge Climate Congress
Joshua Rhett Miller recently covered a new “green police” initiative in Cambridge, MA:
Harvard Hometown Plans Coercive Taxes, Veganism to Stop Climate ‘Emergency’
Congestion pricing to reduce car travel. Elimination of curbside parking. A carbon tax “of some kind,” not to mention taxes on plastic and paper bags. Advocating vegetarianism and veganism, complete with “Meatless or Vegan Mondays.” Those are just some of the proposals put forth by the Cambridge Climate Congress, an entity created in May 2009 to respond to the “climate emergency” plaguing the Massachusetts city.
Going green will not be optional in Cambridge, Mass., if the Cambridge Climate Congress has its way. It will be mandatory.
And many of us were laughing at the Audi “Green Police” commercial that aired during the Superbowl. Perhaps that vision of the future is not all that far off.
Yep. I still find the Audi commercial extremely funny, because this is what it will be like in the future (except for that nice white Audi dashing along the road block built by the Green Police, which will be forbidden).
Prior to Copenhagen, some researchers from Germany’s PIK (who happen to be also senior contributors to the IPCC reports) have estimated the total global CO2 emission budget until 2050 to be 750 billion tons of CO2, distributed evenly across mankind.
This breaks down to about 2.8 tons per year per head or -believe it or not- 7.7 kg per calendar day. Now start thinking about how much you can actually DO with 7.7 kg of emissions rights per day. I’ll tell you this: NOT MUCH AT ALL.
And if you think the Green Police is a joke. Lord Smith of Finsbury, head of U.K.’s Environment Agency, has very detailed plans for tracking your CO2 emission in the future:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6909046.ece
Scary. Scary. Scary.
Mark, thanks for the comment and link. I had missed that story even though I have to use UK and other international media to get the news since here in the us the mainstream media barely cover real climate issues. Nice to see a huge percentage of the comments to that story see the plan for what it is.