Carbon Cops Coming to a Town in a Bubble near You?
A new report from the government’s architecture and design group believes that UK citizens should be subjected to random carbon spot-checks, and intensive surveillance of their diets, transport and waste disposal habits.
The publication comes from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), and talks, rather excessively, about “monitoring” the general public.
The report is titled ‘What Makes and Eco Town?’, and is sure to rile up the UK’s free-thinking public, because it sound’s like something from George Orwells ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’.
The CABE believes that strict monitoring is required to ensure the carbon footprint of eco-town dwellers remains at one-third of the British average, which is the requirement for what they call “one planet living”.
The group wants to monitor “the ecological footprint of the diet of 100 randomly selected residents”, along with our waste disposal and transportation habits.
The Carbon Corps also wan to choose the food you should eat, selecting only the most ecological retailers. The group is also, “actively seeking retailers on site who will commit to supporting residents in reducing the ecological footprint of their food consumption, in particular providing a wide variety of healthy, low meat and dairy options.”
The government proposal includes the building of 15 towns, which will house over 100,000 citizens. These towns sound like a large version of the Big Brother house, with 15 mile an hour speed limits, toilets that don’t flush and a fine for residents leaving the town walls.
If you want to live in such a repressed environment, first of all you’re mad, and second of all, you’re mad, and if the government actually agrees to this, then they are also, in my humble opinion, mad.
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