From Watts Up With That?

Essay by Eric Worrall

“… fly less, eat less meat and use public transport more often …”

Now Keir Starmer’s climate advisers say we will need to change diets and fly less – after PM insisted climate goals wouldn’t hit Britons

By COLIN FERNANDEZ 
PUBLISHED: 09:30 AEDT, 28 November 2024 | UPDATED: 10:09 AEDT, 28 November 2024

Britons will have to fly less, eat less meat and use public transport more often to hit Net Zero goals, the Government’s main climate-change advisers have insisted.

The stipulations outlined to MPs today directly contradict promises by Sir Keir Starmer earlier this month 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 per cent of 1990 levels by 2035.

Speaking at the Cop29 summit in Azerbaijan a fortnight ago, the Prime Minister said he would not be ‘telling people how to live their lives’ by reducing air travel or changing their diets.

But today leading members of the Climate Change Committee (CCC) spelled out that hitting the target would involve widespread ‘behaviour change’.

…Read more: 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14134341/Keir-Starmers-climate-advisers-PM-climate-goals.html

Is anyone else getting fed up with this wartime austerity nonsense greens keep trying to impose on us?

Of course, none of this stops them from claiming renewable energy is the cheapest option. In which case, why the need for rationing and austerity?