{"id":352887,"date":"2024-11-30T15:27:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T14:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=352887"},"modified":"2024-11-30T15:27:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T14:27:53","slug":"british-government-climate-advisors-demand-everyone-live-like-poor-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=352887","title":{"rendered":"British Government Climate Advisors Demand Everyone Live like Poor People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by<\/strong> Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026 fly less, eat less meat and use public transport more often \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now Keir Starmer\u2019s climate advisers say we will need to change diets and fly less \u2013 after PM insisted climate goals wouldn\u2019t hit Britons<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By COLIN FERNANDEZ<\/a> <\/a>
PUBLISHED:<\/strong> 09:30 AEDT, 28 November 2024 | UPDATED:<\/strong> 10:09 AEDT, 28 November 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Britons will have to fly less, eat less meat and use public transport more often to hit Net Zero goals, the Government\u2019s main climate-change advisers have insisted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stipulations outlined to MPs today directly contradict promises by Sir Keir Starmer<\/a> earlier this month that reducing greenhouse gas emissions would not involve people in Britain having to change their lifestyles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New targets mean the UK\u2019s emissions should be cut to 81 per cent of 1990 levels by 2035.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at the Cop29 summit in Azerbaijan<\/a> a fortnight ago, the Prime Minister said he would not be \u2018telling people how to live their lives\u2019 by reducing air travel or changing their diets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But today leading members of the Climate Change<\/a> Committee (CCC) spelled out that hitting the target would involve widespread \u2018behaviour change\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14134341\/Keir-Starmers-climate-advisers-PM-climate-goals.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Is anyone else getting fed up with this wartime austerity nonsense greens keep trying to impose on us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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