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1984 CBDC: Your Travel Will Be Restricted By Personal Carbon Allowances

https://bombthrower.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Intrepid-Sustainable-Future-for-Travel.pdf

https://www.lsnglobal.com/futurespaces/article/29990/intrepid-travel-and-the-future-laboratory-s-new-report-warns-of-travel-extinction
https://www.timeout.com/news/personal-carbon-allowances-could-restrict-how-often-you-travel-according-to-a-new-report-100623
https://www.thefuturelaboratory.com/reports/2022/neo-collectivism

Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com,
“Experts suggest” your standard of living be reduced by over 85%

A report on the future of travel and tourism, co-authored by a travel
agency called Intrepid Travel and The Future Labs Institute, posits a
future deeply impacted by climate change and restrictions on tourist
travel to combat it.

“A Sustainable Future for Travel”, warns of “travel extinction”, where
some areas suffer such radical climate change that all tourism there
ceases, and “personal carbon allowances” that will restrict how often
one is permitted travel.

>From the report (pardon the length, emphasis added):

    “Carbon Passports

    A personal carbon emissions limit will become the new normal as
policy and people’s values drive an era of great change.

    As demonstrated by a worldwide tourism boom, the frequency at
which we can fly is once again seemingly unlimited.

    Conscience and budgets permitting, we feel free to hop on planes
from one place to the next. But this will change. ‘On our current
trajectory, we can expect a pushback against the frequency with which
individuals can travel, with carbon passports set to change the
tourism landscape,’ says Raymond [Martin Raymond, Future Laboratories
co-founder]

    Personal carbon allowances could help curb carbon emissions and
lower travel’s overall footprint.

    These allowances will manifest as passports that force people to
ration their carbon in line with the global carbon budget, which is
750bn tonnes until 2050.

    By 2040, we can expect to see limitations imposed on the amount of
travel that is permitted each year.

    Experts suggest that individuals should currently limit their
carbon emissions to 2.3 tonnes each year – the equivalent of taking a
round-trip from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
However, the average carbon footprint in the US is 16 tonnes per
person per year, 15 tonnes in Australia and 11.7 tonnes in the UK.
This is in stark contrast to where we may find ourselves in the
future, with 2040’s travellers forced to forgo the horizon-expanding
experiences so readily embraced by today’s tourists”

For all practical purposes, your carbon emissions will line up with
your energy usage, give or take a relatively narrow band of
efficiencies (unless we have some kind of clean energy breakthrough,
and the only viable one we have, nuclear, is not considered clean
energy by the climate cult).

Said differently: Your standard of living is your energy usage.
Reducing a society’s energy usage is the same as reducing its living
standards.

With this in mind, let’s look at the numbers cited by the Sustainable
Future for Travel report:

    “Experts suggest that individuals should currently limit their
carbon emissions to 2.3 tonnes each year.”

The table below lays out exactly how much the standard of living for
the residents of each country will have to be reduced in order to meet
the recommended carbon quota set by unelected experts. This is the
level of “degrowth” it will take to satisfy the objectives of climate
alarmists relying on unfalsifiable premises, arbitrary computer
models, and who are deliberately ignoring and suppressing
countervailing data.

How serious are our leaders and policymakers about reducing the
citizenry’s living standards by upwards of 85%?

Here is Canada’s Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, rather
blithely confirming that the government will limit natural gas usage
in order to fight climate change:

    Reporter: There will be limitations on how much natural gas you
can use in the winter?

    Guilbeault: Yes, absolutely, that’s what fighting climate change looks like.

Full clip:

    Canadian Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault rather blithely
answering a reporter who asked "will the government limit natural gas
usage in the winter?"

    (Short answer: "Of Course! That's What fighting climate change looks like!")

    Watch: pic.twitter.com/sau9p2CMnW
    — Mark Jeftovic, The ₿itcoin Capitalist (@StuntPope) November 25, 2023

Why are we talking about carbon passports in the section on Central
Bank Digital Currencies?

(Today’s post is an excerpt from the “Eye on Evilcoin” section of this
month’s Bitcoin Capitalist macro overview).

Because we think CBDCs will invariably launch as, or morph into,
personal carbon footprint quotas.

Right now, what we call “the fiat money system” uses debt for money.
That’s no longer sustainable, so what we’re expecting is an attempt to
switch what we loosely identify as “money”, away from symbolic tokens
backed by debt, to social credit scores, backed by personal carbon
footprint quotas.

Expanding on this theme, probably, is another report from Future Labs
on “Neo-Collectivism”, which may give us a hint at how the
policymakers of late stage globalism will seek to preempt free markets
and universal human rights with a “we’re all in this together” retread
of what is essentially, communism:

    “Society is facing a mass re-organisation. United by values of
empathy and community, consumers are shunning individualism in favour
of alliances that are decentralising industries and redistributing
power at scale”

LS:N Global and Future Laboratories seem like a wannabe World Economic
Forum. Lots of pronouns on the “Team” page, and leaning heavily into
that euphemistic WEF-speak that makes technocratic communism sound
benign and fashionable.

I ended up shelling out £265 to buy the Neo-Collectivist Megatrend
report (a 40 page PDF) and what I found in there was along the lines
of what one might expect, but it was alarming all the same.

In the next post to this one, we’ll dive into it and find out just how
the “Zalpha Generation” is poised to usher us into an era of Systemic
Endemic Socialism.