(I wouldn't laugh too much)''When the cause is so just, which planet-saver could let some contemptible fatty stand in their way, begging for the carbon credits to feed their chubby children?''
SO you think I exaggerate when I say global warming is just the latest cause of the closet totalitarian?
Then pay close attention to an experiment the warmists are about to inflict on the people of Norfolk Island.
Be warned. What’s being trialled there with $390,000 of Gillard Government money may, if it works, be spread to the mainland, say the researchers.
Which means it’s coming for you.
The plan - and, no, I’m not joking - is to put Norfolk Islanders on rations to fight both global warming and obesity.
Funded by the Australian Research Council, and approved by the Socialist Left Science Minister Kim Carr, researchers from the Southern Cross University will give each volunteer on the island a “carbon card”.
Every time they buy petrol, electricity or an air flight, they will have “carbon units” deducted from the fixed allowance on their card.
More units will be lost each time they buy fatty foods, or produce flown in from a long way away.
If, at the end of each year or so, they have carbon units left over, they can sell them. If they’ve blown their allocation, they must buy more.
But each year, the number of carbon units in this market will be cut, causing their price to soar - and thus the price of extra food, power and petrol to rise - because the idea is to cut greenhouse gases and make Norfolk Islanders trim, taut and terrifically moral.
Conservatives well aware of human fallibility will immediately spot the obvious flaw in this latest scheme of the Left to remake humanity. http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column
_why_you_may_soon_need_a_warmists_permission_to_eat
Then pay close attention to an experiment the warmists are about to inflict on the people of Norfolk Island.
Be warned. What’s being trialled there with $390,000 of Gillard Government money may, if it works, be spread to the mainland, say the researchers.
Which means it’s coming for you.
The plan - and, no, I’m not joking - is to put Norfolk Islanders on rations to fight both global warming and obesity.
Funded by the Australian Research Council, and approved by the Socialist Left Science Minister Kim Carr, researchers from the Southern Cross University will give each volunteer on the island a “carbon card”.
Every time they buy petrol, electricity or an air flight, they will have “carbon units” deducted from the fixed allowance on their card.
More units will be lost each time they buy fatty foods, or produce flown in from a long way away.
If, at the end of each year or so, they have carbon units left over, they can sell them. If they’ve blown their allocation, they must buy more.
But each year, the number of carbon units in this market will be cut, causing their price to soar - and thus the price of extra food, power and petrol to rise - because the idea is to cut greenhouse gases and make Norfolk Islanders trim, taut and terrifically moral.
Conservatives well aware of human fallibility will immediately spot the obvious flaw in this latest scheme of the Left to remake humanity. http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column
_why_you_may_soon_need_a_warmists_permission_to_eat
1 comment:
Dear Mike,
It is unfortunate that there has been some mixed messages and negative media attention around the Norfolk Island Carbon Health Evaluation (NICHE) that has recently received funding to be conducted on Norfolk Island.
For your benefit I have included a few dot points which help to summarize what the project is about which might help to address any concerns about what has been raised in the media.
• The NICHE project is a pilot test to see if there is a link between energy use and chronic disease;
• One aim of the study is to work out a way to help people understand their own personal and household carbon use so that they have the ability to monitor it and potentially save money (and improve their health);
• The main goal of the overall project is to assess if a personal carbon trading system would have community support, would reduce carbon emissions and improve health, and how it may work best and be most acceptable to any population in which it is used;
• This is a preliminary research trial, designed to test public reaction to the concept of measuring personal carbon use and interest in the wider development of such a scheme;
• There is no compulsion for anyone on the island to be involved. Participates will be given the ability measure their carbon use (although how and in what form this takes has not yet been decided), but it is up to individuals to choose whether they wish to participate.
• The scheme will be administered by, and with feedback from all Islanders who wish to be involved in the process;
• The processes to be tested have not yet been determined, and will be done in conjunction with reference groups on the island. Mainland researchers will provide scientific input and direction for the process based on work carried out overseas to date;
• Norfolk Island has been chosen for the trial because it is a relatively closed system, where all inputs and outputs can be assessed and hence any changes attributed to the program itself. There is also already a culture of self sustainability on the island;
• The project, in its development, has involved consultations with the Parliament of Norfolk Island as well as with the general public through public meetings and media reports, however it is a community run trial and is not being imposed by the Norfolk Island or the Australia Government
• The trial will involve employment and involvement of Islanders.
In summary the Norfolk Island population are interested in self sustainability and the Island provides an ideal test environment to measure carbon usage and changes in health in an enclosed environment.
On another point, the test of any society is when the modern conveniences of our society is taken away, either by force (in war) or through natural disaster; the sustainable community will draw together and remain a healthy, caring and living community - Norfolk Island is a perfect example of such a community.
Regards,
Astrawan
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