By Robert Bradley Jr. – October 27, 2022
“If alive today, FA Hayek would recognize and warn of climate ‘the road to serfdom.’ It is an evil that comes step by step, never in its entirety. But the warning signs are increasing. It’s time to expose and fight back, politely but firmly.”
The climate crusade has no end because it is futile. But the intelligentsia, politics, and media will not stop at failure. They will march continuously with the message that the public must make sacrifices to save the earth.
Imagine a US Department of Climate. Want to eat meat? Want to bake? Use gas stove. Want to leave the lights on? No, these activities may be subject to knocking on the door in authoritarian America. (For the ‘common interest’, of course.)
I was reminded of this when I read a recent article by Paul Joseph Watson, “Bank of Australia begins to link customer transactions to carbon emissions (October 13, 2022), with subtitles. “The Accelerated Green Social Credit Score Scheme.”
In another prediction of potential future ‘carbon-allowed’ limits, a major Australian bank has introduced a new feature that links purchases to customers’ carbon emissions and alerts them when they are going beyond average.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has partnered with Cogo, a “carbon management solutions” company, to launch a new feature that is part of CBA’s online banking platform.
The bank offers customers the option to “pay a fee” to offset their carbon footprint, with an average listed as 1,280 kg, a long way from the ‘sustainable’ figure of 200 kg.
A person’s carbon footprint is calculated and then an ‘equivalent’ metric is displayed to make the customer feel guilty about it, such as “8 trees cut down”.
“By combining our rich customer data and CoGo’s industry-leading capabilities in measuring carbon output, we will be able to provide more transparency to our customers so they can can take actionable steps to reduce its environmental impact,” CommBank Group CEO Angus Sullivan said in a statement.
The bank has promised to improve the calculation to show how much CO2 the individual purchasing is responsible for.
The bank offers customers the option to “pay a fee” to offset their carbon footprint, with an average listed as 1,280 kg, a long way from the ‘sustainable’ figure of 200 kg… .
A person’s carbon footprint is calculated and then an ‘equivalent’ metric is displayed to make the customer feel guilty about it, such as “8 trees cut down”.
“By combining our rich customer data and CoGo’s industry-leading capacity in measuring carbon output, we will be able to provide more transparency to our customers so they can can take actionable steps to reduce its impact on the environment,” CommBank Group CEO Angus Sullivan said in a statement.
The bank has promised to improve the calculation to show how much CO2 the individual purchasing is responsible for.
Author Paul Joseph Watson then dissects what such a program really means:
While initially presented as a useful way for someone to track their consumption habits and supposed impact on the environment, some fear that one day such schemes may become mandatory and place limits on purchases by customers who exceed their ‘carbon allowance’.
Like us before emphasizeAllied with climate lockdowns, technocrats want to exploit climate change hysteria to increase financial control over individuals.
One such proposal was presented in a scientific journal Nature by four environmental “experts” as a means of reducing global carbon emissions.
Everyone will be issued a “carbon allowance card” that “will require all adults to receive an equal tradable carbon allowance, decreasing over time as appropriate to the country.” [carbon] target. “
The authors make it clear that the program will be a “mandatory national policy.”
The carbon units will be “deducted from the personal budget with each payment of transportation fuel, heating fuel and electricity bills”, and anyone over the limit will be forced to purchase more. units on the individual carbon market from those in excess for sale . “
Of course, the rich will easily buy the offset, and many of them are directly invested in the trading mechanisms on which the plan will be based.
The proposal clarifies that a means of measuring a person’s carbon footprint for commuting will work “on the basis of tracking the user’s travel history”.
The authors note that mass compliance with COVID-19 lockdown regulations has lubricated the slides for continued violent infiltration, and as a result “people may be more prepared to accept employment.” monitoring and restrictions related to PCA to achieve a safer climate”.
Had he been alive today, FA Hayek would have recognized and warned of climate ‘the road to serfdom’. It is an evil that comes step by step, never in its entirety. But the warning signs are increasing. It’s time to speak out and protest, politely but firmly.
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