[Hot Air] You knew it was coming. I knew it was coming. Everybody should have known it was coming. But of course, the powers-that-be are doing their best to turn up the temperature so slowly that the frogs don’t jump out of the water before the water is boiling.Rationing. Scientists in the UK are now proposing rationing of food, gas, and other necessities of life in order to save Mother Earth.
Climate change could be tackled with the help of a World War II-style rationing of petrol, meat and the energy people use in their homes, UK scientists say.
They claim that this would help countries to slash their greenhouse gas emissions ’rapidly and fairly’.
Researchers from the University of Leeds also said that governments could restrict the number of long-haul flights people make in a year or ’limit the amount of petrol one can buy in a month’.
The beauty of the rationing system over others designed to save the planet is that two religiously-held ideals of the Left are combined into one perfect solution. Both the climate change and equity gods get their pound of human flesh. What could be better? Slip in a 15-minute-city or two and you have the urban planning gods satisfied as well. Package it, sell it, and voila, you have your communist dystopia in a nicely wrapped package.