The Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has said Brits should fly less and eat less meat as part of the “behaviour change” required to achieve Net Zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. The Telegraph has more.
Sir Patrick Vallance has warned against Net Zero fear mongering and said he has not stopped eating meat or flying.
“It’s important that the messaging [on climate change] isn’t designed to cause fear or upset, it should be about making sure people understand what the situation is,” the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser told a House of Lords committee on Tuesday.
“We should not aim to frighten people because that’s not helpful, but we should aim to enable people to understand what actions they can take.”
Sir Patrick said that people need “clear and specific guidance” about what they can do to help tackle climate change.
Policies to reach Net Zero by 2050 have so far stopped short of encouraging behaviour change such as flying less or changing diets, but the Government has established an environmental ‘nudge unit’ to work out how to persuade people into green behaviours.
Sir Patrick said it was “unarguable” that getting to the Government’s target of Net Zero carbon [dioxide] emissions by 2050 would require behaviour change, and said he had already changed some of his own habits.
“I’m eating less meat, I cycle to work and I fly less than I used to. I haven’t said I stopped flying or I don’t eat meat; I do. I think it’s about reduction, and appropriate reduction across society,” he said.
“Individuals need to know what is expected of them, as well as making that easy for them.”
Funny how Government policy these days seems to come down to the population stopping doing things they enjoy for the sake of some urgent collectivist goal identified by the experts with their models.
Worth reading in full.
Discussion
Comments
This week across the site:
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to the Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
The man’s insane.
Memorandum to BBC sport 29th April 2022 from the Director General:
‘Dear Colleagues
Given the chameleon-like support that this organisation has given to all utterances of Messrs Whitty and Vallance the past two years, it is my solemn duty to inform you all that we are going to have to cut back somewhat on the gloriously riotous jollies we are able to call ‘going to work’.
I’m afraid it’s going to be politically unacceptable for 200 of you to pig out in Qatar (particularly as they are Muslims) this December, much less get put up in 5 star hotels, get flown in first class and toddle off to play golf on courses using up more water in a day than the area gets in rainfall in a year.
The license fee payors just won’t wear it, I’m afraid. Sunak has told them their heating bills will triple, their taxes will be hiked, their mortgages will go through the roof. So the sight of us lot getting royally wined and dined at the World Cup in our dozens and dozens isn’t going to go down too well, I’m afraid. Not to put too fine a point on it, I wouldn’t expect… Read more »
A very foolish man who has sold his soul. Condescending bastard ‘individuals need to know what’s is expected of them’ and your the man to tells us I suppose. When the majority realise just exactly what you have done they’ll likely rip limb from limb.
When we worked together at GSK, the then CMO, Prof Vallence, would fly almost weekly to the US.
More often than not to pointless meetings which could have been done equally well on the phone. His ‘seniority” meant that he flew BA First class (good for the air miles). I slummed it in Club – TBH.
In the spirit of full transparency, I wonder if the now Sir Vallence would share his BA flying history (easily downloaded from ba.com) and its associated carbon footprint.
I dare say its been a whole lot easier for him to recently reduce his flying. Making it illegal to leave the country may have helped if he took any notice of that, of course.
Perhaps now though hardworking mum and dad would still like to take the kids to Spain for a bit of sun each year.
For God”s sake Vallence, would you just do us all a favour and do one.
Bugger off you infandous, criminal numpty.
<i>”…some urgent collectivist goal identified by the experts with their models…”
Which they have been peddling since “Earth Day” 1972, none of the dire prognostications of which have yet showed any sign whatsoever of transpiring.
Also interesting to note that the first several years’ dire predictions concerned famines, epidemics and so forth caused by an imminent Ice Age brought on by excess anthropogenic particulate emissions.
Who do these people think they are! Government Science Chief is a joke as the Global Warming agenda is an absolute con! He needs to follow the science for once.
He would be of greater benefit to society if he spoke less!
Policies to reach Net Zero by 2050
Well just abolish the arbitrary target -its total nonsense and only legally binding because our useless Govt made its so after a 10 min parliamentary debate .Its now taken on the status of some immutable date after which the world will end.
maybe, if they stopped raping the countyside and farmland, to build new housing estates.. stopped destroying our ancient woodland for railway lines.. stopped passing bee killing pesticides for use.. stopped councils mowing every grass verge to within an inch of its life, instead of leaving it to seed wildflowers for the bees and bugs..
we should be saving what we already have..
maybe, if they stopped raping the countyside and farmland, to build new housing estates..
Do you really equate house-building in currently non-urban areas (still massively restricted by draconian planning regulations) with rape; and if so have you ever put that to a victim of the crime?
Furthermore all the excessively strict restrictions on house-building in the UK (currently mainly using the misanthropic Green religion as the excuse) are what have led to unsustainable price increases ruling out vast numbers from home ownership, especially the young.
Finally, unless you live in a some sort of temporary accommodation such as a tepee in a forest the home you occupy sits on what was once countryside or farmland. Why would you wish to deprive others of what you enjoy?
stopped destroying our ancient woodland for railway lines
Managing plants and trees for useful purposes, including sometimes clearing them, is the opposite of destructive.
.. stopped passing bee killing pesticides for use..
As a long-term vegetarian I dislike the deliberate taking of any life, including that of tiny creatures. So I much prefer the use of non-destructive methods such as netting and the development of insect resistant strains of plants, including the… Read more »
How about we start to “Eat the Rich” instead?
environmental nudge unit? FFS, so wear a mask to protect you and your loved ones from a bacon sandwich
I’m now eating meat 3x per day because of pr!cks like him
It’s ruddy expensive though but it’s a price I’m willing to pay
We should not aim to frighten people because that’s not helpful”
What was this tosser doing when the ‘nudge unit’ began spewing forth their fearmongering and propaganda about the ‘rona.
Another lying duplicitous barsteward
His real title is ‘Chief Scientific Consensus Proselytizer’
Eating less meat will not save the planet. If Whitty knew anything about agriculture, and he clearly doesn’t, he would know that animals are key to improving the environment. What do I know, I only work in the industry so clearly know nothing and must defer to people like Whitty.
Of course this won’t apply to the Globalist Elite. They will “buy absolution” with Carbon Credits.
I’m not changing my lifestyle to comply with their Climate Crisis Propaganda.
Valance lives in his own ( or rather the WEF’s ) dream world. Time he took the rest of his career off!
As if this hasn’t been the plan all along…
‘Stay Home, Protect the Planet, Save an Ecosystem’
If he stopped injecting the poison into our kids I might be prepared to listen to him.
Oh wait, no I bloody well won’t. Not ever.
I agree with him on flying.
There is no need for anyone to fly anywhere.
Until about 50 years ago human beings lived happily (happier than us today) for hundreds of thousands of years without flying.
If flying ended today globally, the world wouldn’t collapse, the human race would continue as before, no one’s quality of life would be reduced in any profound way. People would realise what a bizarre and pointless behaviour it is.
Well just stay at home (or within terrestrial transport distance) blissfully happy then, and feel nothing but sympathy for those making themselves miserable by jetting off to a sunny Caribbean beach, to visit family in Australia, engage in an important work project, or to view the wonders of Venice over a long weekend… 🙂
I don’t tell people how to spend their head earned wedge, e.g. on smoking, drinking, drug taking, online gaming or betting subscriptions etc. etc. So anyone who tells me I cannot fly again deserves a piece of unsawn 4 x 4 inserted into their anal sphincter – without anaesthesia
I am mightily glad I am not married to such a miserable short sighted git.
“Experts” or indoctrinated fools, liars, manipulators…
“Tackling climate change” is such an innocent, infantile phrase which suggests that we, in this tiny little island will save the world from a mythical climate disaster. The real disaster for us lies in the Climate Change Act which should be repealed.
Indeed Rowland, I wonder if these people think that the atmosphere is static and we don’t receive “pollution” from the likes of China. There is much evidence to disprove the lie but it needs to be dug out from behind the regular crap. Of course the real objective is to impose absolute control over us by a tyrannical world government.
Absolutely correct, the Climate Change Act of 2008 was effectively an anti-democratic coup carried out by the British state – it grants the government near complete control over energy production and consumption, and that underpins most other private and commercial activities.
All on the basis of an ideologically driven pseudo-science.
We live on a small island. We have to fly to get anywhere in a decent amount of time.
Funnily enough I have been eating a lot more meat over the last six months or so and feel much better for it. Good quality meat from Eversfield mind. I booked flights to Romania weeks ago and plan to fly long haul this winter. Cheerio Mr Vallance.
Here’s some ‘specific actions for Patrick Vallance’:
Decrease the size of your home by 50%. You can live in a 90sqm metre semi you self-righteous propagandist. Restrict your holiday destinations to Europe. No going to the West Indies, on safari in Africa, trekking in the Himalaya, visiting Lhasa or the like for you. Pay 50% more in taxes than everyone else so you can cover the costs of transportation of those unable to pay ludicrous prices to live in Central London. You only cycle to work because you live the life of Riley. Learn some basic climate science, you ignorant Net Zero worshipper. Learn that plants grow faster with more carbon dioxide. Did you read Alan Fersht’s textbook on Enzyme Kinetics at University? Learn that carbon dioxide levels in the soil are several thousand ppm. Plants love carbon dioxide, it’s not a poison, you mentally subnormal cretin. Go study the climate of 1816. Then try and grow crops with frosts in summer. We won’t bail you out if you are going to starve…. If you won’t accept the science that carbon dioxide is irrelevant in climate fluctuations, you need to resign. Go and study the 1861/62 Great Flood Event in… Read more »
Well said Sir 👍👍
make it easy in them.
until it is time to make it not so easy on them…
leading the sheep to the slaughterhouse…..
The BBC will set an example by cutting the number of employees travelling to Qatar for the World Cup by 50%. Those that do travel will fly economy, stay in tents with the sweaty masses and will forage for food in the desert, ably assisted by desert tribes with expertise in finding food there.
We all know how these parasites view their jollies: a god given right for the sponging classes.
Well, that needs to end and end now.
Vallance will set an example by agreeing to be murdered if he ever flies again.
The people who set the example are the people proposing the restrictions.
Any employee of the WHO, WEF, the UN who ever travels again is murdered. Ditto every single WEF prostitute, every global billionaire and every single elected political leader who has followed this psychopathic Build Back Better criminality.
Boris Johnson will never leave the UK shores again. Nor will John Bell. Nor will Chris Whitty. Nor will Matthew Hancock. Nor will every single NHS Consultant working in a London hospital.
Simple.
Can we please make an exception for Bunter & Wankcock?
Filthy Traitorous Bastard !!!…
A bit short on the eloquence there Freddy. What brought that on?