The UK’s official “Net Zero” advisory body has advised the British government to force restrictions onto the public to limit meat consumption, private car ownership, air travel, and other freedoms that allegedly contribute to “climate change.”
The Climate Change Committee has advised the UK government’s leadership that it must impose radical lifestyle changes on the general population in order to comply with the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Net Zero” goals.
According to the government’s climate advisers, this means millions of British citizens will also need to install expensive heat pumps in their homes over the next decade.
The Climate Change Committee said there needed to be around 1.5 million installations of noisy heat pumps in existing homes every year by 2035.
The target is far higher than the 60,000 installed in 2023.
In its advice on the UK’s Seventh Carbon Budget, the committee asserted that citizens will need to be forced to buy only electric cars, fly less, and dramatically cut their meat and dairy consumption.
The budget sets a limit for “greenhouse gas emissions” between 2038 to 2042.
The report said, that to meet the country’s “Net Zero” ambition, three-quarters of cars and two-thirds of trucks would need to be electric by 2040.
However, the committee argues that expecting the general public to replace their gas-powered vehicles with electric equivalents won’t be enough.
Brits must give up their cars, even electric vehicles, and be pressured to cycle and walk more.
In addition, the committee demanded that the general population reduce meat consumption by 25 percent.
Vacationers were also warned of more expensive flights as the committee urged the government to commit to a 17% fall in aviation emissions compared to 2023.
Demand for air travel needs to be limited to curb emissions, the committee urged.
Airlines must be forced to take responsibility for the costs of “decarbonizing” through sustainable fuels, capturing carbon and electric and hybrid planes, the committee said.
However, electric and hybrid planes are unproven technology.
The committee notes that hiking the cost of flight tickets to make them much more expensive could limit air travel by 2050, according to the report.
Critics of “Net Zero” policies meanwhile, have condemned the report as the committee’s “usual Marxist garbage.”
Those who oppose the proposals urged the UK’s socialist Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to “face down the zealots” as his left-wing Labour administration scrambles for economic growth.
The UK is one of several nations that has committed to reaching the WEF’s “Net Zero” targets.
The WEF’s targets require a complete reduction of “greenhouse gas emissions” to 0% of 1990 levels by 2050.
Under the committee’s “balanced pathway” for reaching this target, the report found achieving “Net Zero” would cost around £110 billion over the next 25 years.
At an average of £4 billion per year between 2025 and 2050, this translates to around 0.2% of GDP.
This was estimated to be front-loaded into the first half of the period, peaking at an annual net cost of £33 billion in 2029.
For the period between 2025 and 2040, the committee’s figures showed the drive to “Net Zero” would cost an eye-watering £320 billion.
However, experts warn that these estimates are far too optimistic and the true cost will run into the trillions, aside from the cost of many of the freedoms people enjoy today.
In its latest advice, the committee urged the UK government to commit to an 87% cut on the UK’s 1990 levels of “greenhouse gas emissions” by 2040.
It set out what it said was a deliverable and cost-effective route to the greenhouse gas emissions cuts required from 2038 to 2042 to ensure the UK meets “Net Zero” by 2050.
Around a third of the emissions cuts in the period will have to come from action by households, mainly buying an electric car and a heat pump to replace an old gas boiler.
But restrictions on meat and dairy consumption and flying would play a “smaller, but important role,” the committee added.
To cut “emissions” from meat and dairy production, Brits were told they would have to eat 25% less meat by 2040 compared with 2019 levels.
The committee claims that the farms made redundant by the plans will allegedly allow for the land to be repurposed for tree planting to “absorb carbon.”
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