Keeping the peasants at home

Relaxing after a hard day of planting

Yesterday I pointed out the hypocrisy of the royal spawn and his bride flying home on a private jet instead of sailing to California on a wooden ship made from recycled lumber and helmed by Little Greta, so the Daily Mail’s article on the same topic isn’t news. But this did catch my eye:

The couple’s 5,500-mile trip from Farnborough, England, to Santa Barbara is estimated to have emitted nearly 60 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to a chartered flight provider.

Under terms of the Paris Agreement, which seeks to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius, a person’s annual carbon budget should be limited to 2.1 tons per year. That means Prince Harry and Markle surpassed that mark by nearly 15 times in a single flight, the Times reported.

The carbon emission rating of flying economy on a commercial flight from Heathrow to Los Angeles is 1.4 tons, according to a climate consultancy cited by the Times.

The average American citizen produces 19 tons of CO2, it says here., so we’ve got some serious cutting to do if we’re to meet our Paris Agreement mandate, and that means, just as a beginning, no more roaming about the country. When our carbon footprints are monitored and controlled, as our Davos betters are demanding, a yokel’s ordinary, round-trip flight of that same 5,500 miles from NY to California will use up 2/3 of his annual carbon allotment, and that’s pretty much it for our unhappy serf for the year: he’ll be lucky if the neighborhood watch allows him to heat his home and have hot water once a month, and as for mobility, well, has he considered skateboards?

The nomenklatura will get around these limits by simply buying indulgences, or “carbon offsets” as they are now called. Global Warming spokesman Leonardo DiCaprio is already doing exactly that. St. Leo pays a group calling itself “Future Forests” to plant trees in countries far away (he could plant them in his own yard, but they’d block his view of the ocean), to offset his claimed carbon footprint of “11,000 tons” — see figure above re: 19 tons per average citizen, and judge for yourself the accuracy of this figure. Others have, and they aren’t impressed.

So that’s fine for our rulers: they can continue to vacation on their 500’ yachts, take private jets to their weekend homes in Aspen and Jackson Hole, and pop over from London to dine at that absolutely divine new restaurant in New York City that all their friends “are simply raving about!” For the rest of us, not so much — literally.