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New video on the UK Climate Assembly's "recommendation" that meat and dairy consumption be reduced by 20-40%.
In fact, just ten people made that recommendation.
In fact, just ten people made that recommendation.
This is quite a complex story, involving the Climate Assembly (who have blocked their critics on Twittter), the Committee on Climate Change @theCCCuk, its Chief Exec
@ChiefExecCCC and its chief economist @Mike_Thommo,
Parliament @POST_UK, and of course, the @BBC.
@ChiefExecCCC and its chief economist @Mike_Thommo,
Parliament @POST_UK, and of course, the @BBC.
In last week's launch of the CCC's 6th Carbon Budget, Chris Stark and Mike Thompson make a big deal out of the fact that the Assembly agree with much of their 2019 Net Zero report, which also recommended meat & dairy reduction.
But it's no surprise...
But it's no surprise...
Chris Stark was one of the four main organisers and designers of the Climate Assembly, known as 'Expert Leads'.
These Leads chose the experts that the Assembly would hear from, and how the sessions would be organised, and how the findings would be presented.
These Leads chose the experts that the Assembly would hear from, and how the sessions would be organised, and how the findings would be presented.
On the second weekend that the Assembly met, it was divided into three groups.
Only one of those groups discussed the role of diets in reaching net zero.
And just 29% of that one group voted in favour of reducing emissions by changing diets, and even then, only voluntarily.
Only one of those groups discussed the role of diets in reaching net zero.
And just 29% of that one group voted in favour of reducing emissions by changing diets, and even then, only voluntarily.
This was in fact *EMBARASSING* for Chris Stark and the CCC. It is a comprehensive REJECTION of the 2019 Net Zero report.
So the Climate Assembly organisers simply fudged the issue, to claim that the Assembly members supported it.
So the Climate Assembly organisers simply fudged the issue, to claim that the Assembly members supported it.
The Assembly was supposed to represent public opinion. It is supposed to match Britain's demographics and politics.
It was already a highly questionable and anti-democratic exercise.
It is being used by bureaucrats and politicians to claim that the public supports Net Zero.
It was already a highly questionable and anti-democratic exercise.
It is being used by bureaucrats and politicians to claim that the public supports Net Zero.
The Assembly heard from just ONE academic about meat consumption and climate change.
And she's manifestly a political activist more than an academic.
There was no debate. No alternative position. No criticism.
Here's her presentation.
And she's manifestly a political activist more than an academic.
There was no debate. No alternative position. No criticism.
Here's her presentation.
Little wonder that she did not convince more than ten people.
You have to dig through a 500 page report to find out that the Climate Assembly's recommendations have been misrepresented, and that its decisions are based on just a ten minute talk from a political hackademic.
You have to dig through a 500 page report to find out that the Climate Assembly's recommendations have been misrepresented, and that its decisions are based on just a ten minute talk from a political hackademic.
The thing that the Assembly organisers could not ignore, though, was the categorical instruction that the Assembly members gave: meat and dairy reduction must be voluntary, not enforced or coerced.
And this is where the BBC comes in.
And this is where the BBC comes in.
If the Assembly's recommendations are to be followed, meat and dairy reduction will be achieved though propaganda, pestering, and fear-mongering. Hence the BBC's totally uncritical reporting... As per usual. This will get worse.
They could have made this video. But they didn't.
They could have made this video. But they didn't.
So, yes, I'm saying that the civil servants behind all this are liars. And so are the BBC.
Please watch, like and *share* the videos, so that they're worth making!
