Joanna Lumley Calls For Rationing

[barry1010]

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/joanna-lumley-wartime-rationing-climate-change-b1945344.html

As I understand it she wants everyone to be given points to spend on things that have a negative effect on the climate - fuel for the car, gas and electricity in the home, flights, meat, new clothes, imported food, imported everything...

Everyone would have a set number of points to spend as they wish for one year, and when they are gone, that's it.

I can see many problems with this - racketeering on the black market being one.

Good idea?

[barry1010]

Mozz, I agree totally - Joanna is free to air her opinions about anything and everything but she has got a successful record of lobbying parliament to get what she wants.
Some peoples voices are much louder than others.

[Khandro]

NJ //She's an actor. She need not roam the globe making documentaries for TV. If she was really worried about the effect air travel has on the environment she would have the filming done by local crews and she could voice it over or if this was unsuitable then not made the programmes at all.//

You don't usually talk nonsense, but here I'm afraid you do. Sorry, but that's not how the medium of television works & we should be glad of it. I repeat; that is her job.

The people who should be criticized for self-indulgent waste, pollution & squander of the planets resources are the billionaires firing rockets into space for kicks.

[New Judge]

But if she is sincere in her worries about climate change she can make more of a difference than I can because she travels more. She has no need to travel to do these things. She's suggesting that people are "rationed" to a limited amount of air travel. We are told the world faces an "existential crisis" (or some such dramatic, nonsensical headline). If it's that serious and she believes it we don't need celebrities jetting round the globe to describe the promenade in Havana. She can't ask people to alter their diets whilst she's doing that.

[Khandro]

NJ: She's an actress & presenter, television programmes are initiated by producers.

[New Judge]

She doesn't have to accept the job. If she was sincere in her belief that we're all going to be burnt alive she would be doing everything she could to help avoid it. Sorry, but I'm rather tired of hypocrites preaching to me what I must and mustn't do when their own lifestyles seem not to to be affected one iota. The people in this country are being encouraged and will be eventually forced to adopt some of the most radical changes to their lives they have seen in the "battle against climate change." Meanwhile the great and the good sail on as if nothing is required of them.

[William51]

I have liked the campaigns she has done but she may be now losing her marbles.

[New Judge]

//We the UK cannot make any difference no matter what we do//

Which of course is the most valid point of all. The UK could reduce its "carbon emissions" to zero tomorrow and it would make not the slightest difference to the problem at all. The notion that we must do all we can in order to encourage others to do the same is a ridiculous notion. Most of the biggest so-called polluters have absolutely no intention whatsoever of changing their habits at all. When the end of this ludicrous jamboree in Glasgow comes that situation will not have changed. A few nice dinners will have been gorged, a lot of handshaking and hugging will take place, a few "accords" will be signed, a lot of grandstanding will go on. Then they'll all go home and the big polluters will go on polluting on the same grand scale. Meanwhile the idiot that masquerades as the Prime Minister of this country will continue his (or rather his wife's) strategy of bankrupting individuals, businesses and the economy to reduce our 1%.

[youngmafbog]

Another hypocritical luvvie banging on.

As far as I am concerned she can do one.

[goodgoalie]

Excellent article on page 7 of the latest Private Eye about the ludicrous
'green' Drax power station, which will interest you, NJ - it's one thing that absolutely makes my blood boil in all this climate stuff.

[dannyk13]

Not sure about what is the cause of 'climate change' but I think that our climate is changing.Just been outside and the sun is as warm as it was in summer and Tomorrow it's November.

[New Judge]

As I've said before, Drax is the most ludicrous manifestation of the collective brainwashing that is being visited on this country. It is the largest single source of CO2 in the UK and it is the third largest such site in Europe (after only two coal fired sites, one in Poland and one in Germany). Apart from what it emits, it has sucked in around £800m a year in subsidies, all of which is paid by consumers. It would probably be cheaper to burn £5 notes instead of wood. Yet none of its emissions count towards the UK's total. It is a gigantic confidence trick played on a gullible public (who are paying for the joke).

[goodgoalie]

Absolutely, NJ - its subsidy is £2m per day