Members of Congress consider that this bill could cause mass starvation, death, disease, and social collapse in the near future—any objection to that?

From the Daily Skeptic

Chris Morrison

On Friday 24 January, the UK Parliament will vote on a Private Members' Bill that could lead to mass starvation, widespread illness and death within a few years, and the almost certain collapse of civil liberties and society. The bill has the support of a third of voting MPs and there is a clear and present risk of passing it. With many MPs heading to their constituencies on Friday, the remaining 200 fanatics may have a chance to vote for themselves. The bill is a thinly veiled attempt to use pointless litany of climate and nature crises to ration and control almost everything citizens consume. The clear attack on civil liberties should serve as a warning to other countries to resist the net-zero hysteria that has seeped into much of Britain’s elite society.

The bill is heading for an important second reading and has the support of around 200 MPs, mostly from collectivist left-wing parties. Driven by the “Zero Hour” campaign funded by Green Blob, British liberal elites generally support the Climate and Nature Bill. Almost all 72 Lib Dem MPs, led by clown Ed Davey, are involved, as are 90 members of the ruling Labor Party. Various smaller parties were involved, along with a couple of crazy Tories Simon Hall and Roger Gale. In the House of Lords, former TV presenter Baroness “Joan” Bakewell has signed up, while Labor mayor Andy Burnham and the sinister Sadiq Khan also believe in the horrific cause. this church times Support was reported from a number of bishops, including the charismatic former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. Additionally, 17 union presidents, mostly from the non-wealth-creating public sector, supported the bill.

Starvation, death, disease, and civil strife—emotional exaggeration or fact-examined rational conclusion? Let's consider these facts and this evil dark green money alliance of fanatics and fools doesn't seem to be doing it. (Apologies, of course, to those of them who actually knew exactly what was being planned, and a sincere request to withdraw from future polite and civilized society.)

The two main threads of the bill are to eliminate almost all use of hydrocarbons in the near future and to completely ban the production, exploration, sale or import of hydrocarbons (referred to in the bill as “fossil fuels”). It appears that we are on target to reduce the use of hydrocarbons by almost 90% within a decade, which will impact everything from the energy that heats homes and drives the modern economy to the medicines and food that sustain life. If Britain followed such a plan, society would collapse almost immediately. People freeze to death in winter, there is no food in stores, and no medicines in hospitals and pharmacies. There would be no electricity to run sewage treatment plants or hydrocarbon chemicals to purify the water. While citizens are trying their best to survive, there can be a complete breakdown of law and order.

The bill lacks data but would require Britain's total carbon dioxide emissions to be limited to “no more than a certain proportion” of the United Nations' remaining global carbon budget. This “budget” is of course just a fictitious figure, coupled with the fear of a temperature increase of 1.5°C. Paul Homewood based the figures on Zero Hour's own calculations, which he said suggested emissions would fall to a third within five years. But that’s not the end of the story, as the bill requires that the emissions released by all UK imports must be taken into account. This brings the subsidy down to around 10% of current levels. The scale of cuts required would be almost unimaginable, and Homewood observed that a ban on all imported goods and food would still leave the country far short of the stated target. “The bill's authors don't seem to have thought about how we would be able to feed ourselves when half the food supply disappears. We must survive on “low-carb fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes and grains,” according to Zero Hour. ” he reported.

It is clear that industries will shut down, money will flee the country, ports and airports will be closed due to lack of traffic, non-meat diets will be strictly rationed, cars will disappear from the roads and even local travel will become difficult. Under such circumstances, the potential for domestic collapse is high and can only be avoided by imposing strict emergency powers and suspending democratic freedoms and institutions.

There is no doubt that this is all justified in order to save the planet.

The bill is currently being pushed through Parliament by Lib Dem MP Roz Savage, who spent her youth rowing alone on the ocean thinking about climate and nature. According to Wikipedia, she rowed in the women's lightweight class at Cambridge University, where she won the Half Blue medal. Considering the important role hydrocarbons play in modern society, it might be better to spend almost two years rowing on the Pacific Ocean. Almost half of the world's food production depends on the use of hydrocarbon fertilizers, and famine in many parts of the world has been eliminated by the use of chemical fertilizers.

How many of the supporters of this deplorable bill understand how dependent humans are on natural hydrocarbons? How many people are willing to educate themselves on how the science about climate is maligned and captured by well-funded political activists, neo-Malthusians, and funding-hungry academics. This, in turn, has created media echo chambers that promote panics that are mostly false and invented by manipulated computer models. If we were being charitable, perhaps we could find an excuse for the level of ignorance displayed by some of the bill's supporters. For example, they may not know that in addition to food, heating, transportation and plastics, hydrocarbons are used to make medicines. They are found in vaccines, injections and pills. Halogenated hydrocarbons are used in medicine to make anesthetics such as halothane, inhaler propellants, and sedatives such as chloral hydrate.

For supporters of a bill aimed at ensuring that “the exploration, extraction, export and import of fossil fuels in the UK ends as quickly as possible”, a bit of science and realism might go a long way. Even the crazy current energy secretary Miliband admits that gas plays an important role in maintaining power supplies – which is not true given this winter's wind drought, lack of backup power and the resulting demand for electricity of up to 70% strangeness. If realism fails, tough choices lie ahead – who will step up to take away the life-saving heat that keeps seniors warm in their homes, or ban inhalers that relieve winter asthma? Perhaps the 200 MPs listed on the Zero Hour website in support of the bill will be asked such a question the next time they seek votes from a wider electorate.

Chris Morrison is daily skepticenvironment editor.

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