Poll suggests public isn’t sold on Big Brother’s save-the-planet pleas
“People aren’t stupid,” Marc Morano, of Climate Depot, says of the public’s skepticism of electric cars and the climate-obsessed federal government that is pushing them.
According to Morano, the AP and climate researchers would be surprised to learn many Americans know an EV is not even an “earth-friendly” invention to help the planet.
“It takes half a million pounds of dug-up materials from the earth to make one 1,000-pound, average-size Tesla battery,” Morano says. “And they know that all of that material is coming from China. They know it’s coming from the lowest environmental standards.”
“I don’t think the Associated Press is capable of understanding this: people are very suspicious when something is mandated, when something is forced on you for your own good, or for the alleged good of the planet,” Morano tells AFN.
Great Travel Reset: Britons who travel abroad more than once a year would face punitive ‘frequent flyer’ levies under Green Party proposals
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13523769/Greens-plan-families-travel-abroad-year-frequent-flyer-levies-scrap-Trident-increase-NI-rates.html Greens plan to clip the wings of families who travel abroad more than once a year with ‘frequent flyer’ levies, scrap Trident and increase NI rates, under party’s election pledges By KUMAIL JAFFER Britons who travel abroad more than once a year would face punitive ‘frequent flyer’ levies under Green Party proposals. The party – […]
Great Travel Reset: UK Green Party pushes ‘frequent flyer levies’ to reduce your ‘aerial carbon footprint’ – ‘The freedom to fly at will is an incredible privilege’ – ‘Too much air travel is taking place’
Nick Bowett – GreenWorld.org – Jan 2023: We need to think about cutting carbon equivalent emissions in every sector, including those that are difficult to decarbonise – such as aviation – in a culturally sensitive way. Introducing a frequent flyer levy would force frequent fliers to think more about their aerial carbon footprint and give them a financial incentive to lower it. …
Instead of hiking the price of all flights a fairer way to counter the burgeoning demand for air travel is to impose a frequent flyer levy. Under well detailed Green Party proposals, this would allow people to take one return flight a year, with no extra levy, so people could go on annual holidays and visit any family they may have abroad. A frequent flyer levy will make people consider if the trip they want to make is necessary and incentivise them to consider taking less carbon intensive forms of transport. … The freedom to fly at will to almost any country in the world – in hours – is an incredible privilege which is now largely overlooked as travelling far afield has become so commonplace, but unfortunately, aviation is notoriously difficult to decarbonise. …
Too much air travel is taking place which is warming our planet, hence damaging ecosystems which we rely on for food, and so forth. More British people travel abroad each year than any other nationality, so it is entirely fitting for the UK to show leadership on tackling this aspect of the climate emergency.