How
much do you value your freedom of movement; the ability to go where you want,
when you want and by your preferred transport mode? How would you feel if you
were compelled to give up using your car, and therefore corralled in your local
area? Or forced to rely on inflexible, expensive and inefficient public
transport? How does being the contemporary equivalent of a Medieval serf appeal
to you?

Think this can’t happen in a democracy? Well think again. The government
recently published a Science and Technology Select Committee report [See
Reference 1 below] which states baldly:

“In the long-term, widespread personal vehicle ownership does not appear
to be compatible with significant decarbonisation.”

So even if you are “green” enough to get rid of a perfectly
satisfactory petrol or diesel car, and to purchase an Electric Vehicle, it
still won’t be enough. By 2050 you will have to forego personal mobility (i.e.,
your car or PTW) and will actually be a climate serf, a slave to the cultists
of the pseudo-scientific, quasi-religious Climate Change Movement.

It won’t end there either: you will also be told how (i.e., by electricity
only) and when you may heat your home; when you are allowed to use (only those)
appliances permitted by these acolytes of what amounts to a Climate
Inquisition. And you can completely forget the idea of flying anywhere on
holiday, too.

Why is this? So that by 2050, Britain can meet the 2008 Climate Change Act’s
net zero carbon dioxide emissions obligations, with which some of our
intellectually-challenged politicians have unilaterally saddled us.

Be very clear, the “science” underpinning the concept of runaway
man-made climate change is anything but “settled”: it is highly
questionable (see Notes for Editors below). Legislation to allegedly control
the terrestrial climate control is actually aimed at controlling you! None of
the measures the UK government is in the process of implementing will have any
measurable effect on the terrestrial climate. This is especially true, given
that countries like China and India produce tens of times the UK’s declining
total emissions – while theirs will continue to grow dramatically for the
foreseeable future [References 2, 3].

If you want to regain control of your own destiny rather than being dictated to
by the misinformed start being proactive now. Write to your MP. Tell him (or
her) that they won’t get your vote at any election if they continue to support
the basket of unwarranted and repressive policies spawned by the Climate Change
Act’s scientifically-flawed crusade against carbon dioxide. Tell your friends
and make them aware they are being led down the garden path by suggestible,
gullible politicians and modern-day Luddite zealots.

If you want to actively help staunch the flow of “green” (naïve and
gullible) falsehoods and retain personal mobility join the Alliance of British
Drivers.

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