The UK government is telling Britons that they must eat less meat, take fewer flights, use public transport, and buy expensive electric vehicles (EVs) in order to comply with globalist “Net Zero” goals.
The demands have come from the socialist government’s senior “climate change” advisors.
Members of the British Parliament have been given a list of stipulations that the general public will need to follow to align with the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Net Zero” agenda.
The demands directly contradict promises made by far-left Prime Minister Sir. Keir Starmer in November.
Starmer promised voters that reducing greenhouse gas emissions would not involve people in Britain having to change their lifestyles.
New targets mean the UK’s emissions should be cut to 81 percent of 1990 levels by 2035.
Speaking at the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan last month, Starmer said he would not be “telling people how to live their lives” by reducing air travel or changing their diets.
However, leading members of the government’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) are now insisting that hitting the target would involve widespread “behavior change.”
During the Commons Environmental Audit Committee meeting, James Richardson, director of analysis at the CCC, was asked:
“To what extent will individual behavioral change be needed?”
Richardson responded:
“In terms of the analysis we’ve done, about 10 percent of emissions reduction to 2035 comes from what we would think of as behavior change.
“That’s predominantly around diets, flying, and modal shifting [to] public transport.”
Detailing the “key behavioral changes people would notice” under the changes, Richardson said:
“It’s not about telling people you must stop flying, but it’s the rate of growth of flights that we think would happen if we didn’t take any action…
“When we talk to citizens, people seem willing to accept there must be some degree of constraint.”
Regarding “changes in diet,” Richardson said:
“We think about half the change you’d need to get to by 2035 is a continuation of the existing trends of people changing what they eat.”
However, Richardson was forced to admit that people may have changed their diets, such as by eating less meat, because of the rise in the cost of living in recent years.
Richardson was asked why the installation rate of energy-efficient heat pumps is nowhere near hitting the government’s target of 600,000 a year by 2028.
He said installing a pump would hit consumers in the pocket as they are more expensive to run than gas boilers.
“At the moment, if you do the right thing you will lose from it,” he admitted.
Professor Piers Forster, interim chairman of the CCC, said the price of electricity was too high in the UK compared to gas.
He continued by acknowledging that the costs of fossil fuels have been rising partly to subsidize wind and solar power.
“Our very top recommendation is to reduce the cost of electricity,” Forster said.
“If you reduce the cost of electricity, you make it more compelling to buy an electric car, to install an air-source heat pump rather than a gas boiler, and for our industries to make the necessary investment in electrification.”
Forster said there is a need for “long-term consistent policies that are really well communicated by the industry and communicated by the government as well.”
“You have to keep that really consistent message out there that, in the long term, your electric car will not be as expensive for you as the petrol or diesel one you are currently using,” he added.
Richardson said he supported the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate.
The ZEV mandate imposes stiff fines if carmakers miss their sales targets for EVs.
The policy has been blamed by auto giant Stellantis for its decision to close its auto manufacturing plant in Luton, England after 120 years.
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