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Report: UK Must Halve Eating Meat To Hit Net-Zero Target

by Victoria Friedman
March 11, 2020, 8:50 AM
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burger chips friesA report by a center created by the Conservative administration has said that Britons must decrease their meat and dairy consumption by up to 50 percent in order for the country to hit the government’s pledge for the UK to go carbon neutral by 2050.

The report by Catapult Energy Systems released on Tuesday is even more drastic than the government’s Committee on Climate Change’s January recommendation that citizens cut their meat and dairy consumption by one-fifth.

Catapult Energy Systems advised in its report Innovating to Net Zero that the UK must increase the number of wind farms, introduce more solar power and hydrogen power, and build around 20 “small modular nuclear” reactors to support three-quarters of heating in cities.

There would also have to be increased development of carbon capture and storage systems, land for livestock production must be slashed in half, and there must be an increase in harvesting biomass crops.

However, even if all of the systems recommended are employed at full capacity, the UK could only hit the target in 30 years’ time if Britons accepted drastic changes to their lifestyles.

Meat and dairy consumption “may need to be cut by up to 50 percent… depending on the success of low carbon deployment”. Britons would also have to curtail their air travel.

“Net Zero before 2050 is unlikely without highly speculative changes to lifestyle, land use and low carbon technologies – such as banning aviation and meat production,” CES said.

The body, which was created by the government to fast-track the UK’s transition to a greener profile, remarked in the report that Britons were “more resistant and emotional” when told to drastically alter their diets, demanding that whilst these recommendations may be unpopular, it was one of “two key lifestyle changes [that] will need to be achieved.”

Noticing that people do not want to make changes that make their lives worse, the report said:

“Early evidence suggests a general willingness to adopt new technologies (such as new heating or mobility) as long as these can deliver the same experiences as before. Conversely, approaching the subject of dietary change or aviation often elicits a more resistant and emotional response.”

It was under the leadership of the centrist and notionally conservative Theresa May that the UK became the first major economy to pledge to go net-zero carbon emissions by a specified date.

Right-wingers in the Conservative Party and those in the conservative movement have been disappointed to find that Prime Minister Boris Johnson — while hitherto a sound Brexiteer — has not rowed back on the extreme pro-green policies of his predecessor, but has instead pushed forward with policies which one report warns could cost £3 trillion.

There is growing concern over Wednesday’s budget which will reportedly drop the fuel duty freeze, resulting in a rise of 2p per liter for petrol and diesel.

This burden would be particularly felt by the working class — those that lent the Conservatives their votes in December 2019, handing Johnson an 80-seat majority — with MPs warning against laying the burdens of environmentalism “on the backs of working people”.

Robert Halfon, leading the MPs in their opposition to dropping the tax freeze, said:

“Boris Johnson said during the election that there were no plans to raise fuel duty because he understood it has such a huge impact on people on low incomes. People trusted him on that.

“This Government isn’t just about Brexit, it’s about being the workers’ party. It doesn’t matter whether you’re blue-collar or white-collar — everyone will face the hit of a fuel duty rise.”

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Comments 10

  1. Joseph Repas says:
    6 years ago

    Good!!! More meat for me!!!! YUMMMMMMMM!!!!!

    Reply
  2. Ken Irwin says:
    6 years ago

    Windmills need a 3000 ton reinforced concrete base – concrete and steel manufacturing both produce prodigious amounts of carbon dioxide. Can’t have them without doing so – not chemically possible.
    Commercial Hydrogen is manufactured by steam reforming Methane which produces carbon dioxide – 2H20+CH4 = 6H + CO2 – bet they don’t mention that in the brochure.
    What a spectacular wast of scarce resources so you can put your virtue signalling halo on high beam.

    Reply
  3. Roger Payne says:
    6 years ago

    This plan to be vegetarian/vegan was part of green revolution as planned by the German Workers National Socialist Party (Nazis) in the 1930s. Hitler Youth were organised for the new green revolution. Swedish Arrhenius, in the late 18000s pushed forward the idea that CO2 would warm the planet, but urged Swedish people to burn wood fires, since any global warming would be good for the cold Swedish nation, and trees would grow better. He failed to notice that experiments in glass containers in a laboratory are not quite the same as a planet and its atmosphere, troposphere and stratosphere. And the sun. And the whole solar system.

    Reply
    • Joseph Repas says:
      6 years ago

      Exactly Roger Payne! Thank you!!!

      Reply
  4. Graham McDonald says:
    6 years ago

    Fuel tax increase? Have the French smuggle a supply of Yellow Jackets over the channel…..

    Reply
  5. Leo S says:
    6 years ago

    Well trained mindless monkeys will do anything the government told them to do. The best, fastest and easiest way to achieve their ZERO carbon goal is to commit mass suicide in order to save the planet. Go ahead, do it, you cretins you.

    Reply
  6. Spurwing Plover says:
    6 years ago

    If these fools what to go vegan all over this Global Warming/Climate Change scam then let them if they want to be total idiots because they have fallen Hook.Line and Sinker for this whole thing then let them suffer the consquinces of their own foolish ideas

    Reply
  7. Sonnyhill says:
    6 years ago

    Go ahead and live on potato sandwiches, that’ll leave more meat for the rest of us.

    Reply
  8. Dave O says:
    6 years ago

    Let me get this straight. Britons have to cut their meat/dairy to 1/5 of current consumption. While China is building coal-fired power plants.
    Makes no sense.

    Reply
    • David Lewis says:
      6 years ago

      Dave O, if you re-read the article you will see the cut is supposed to be to one half of current consumption. However, you are still right. This makes no sense at all.

      Reply

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