Fly Less and Eat Less Meat to Save Planet, Government Science Chief Tells Brits

The Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has said Brits should fly less and eat less meat as part of the “behaviour change” required to achieve Net Zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. The Telegraph has more.

Sir Patrick Vallance has warned against Net Zero fear mongering and said he has not stopped eating meat or flying.

“It’s important that the messaging [on climate change] isn’t designed to cause fear or upset, it should be about making sure people understand what the situation is,” the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser told a House of Lords committee on Tuesday.  

“We should not aim to frighten people because that’s not helpful, but we should aim to enable people to understand what actions they can take.”

Sir Patrick said that people need “clear and specific guidance” about what they can do to help tackle climate change.

Policies to reach Net Zero by 2050 have so far stopped short of encouraging behaviour change such as flying less or changing diets, but the Government has established an environmental ‘nudge unit’ to work out how to persuade people into green behaviours.

Sir Patrick said it was “unarguable” that getting to the Government’s target of Net Zero carbon [dioxide] emissions by 2050 would require behaviour change, and said he had already changed some of his own habits.

“I’m eating less meat, I cycle to work and I fly less than I used to. I haven’t said I stopped flying or I don’t eat meat; I do. I think it’s about reduction, and appropriate reduction across society,” he said.

“Individuals need to know what is expected of them, as well as making that easy for them.”

Funny how Government policy these days seems to come down to the population stopping doing things they enjoy for the sake of some urgent collectivist goal identified by the experts with their models.

Worth reading in full.

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ellie-em
3 years ago

I wondered when this charlatan would surface again. He should get back in his dank cave with his mate Witless, another waste of oxygen.

Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  ellie-em

“Individuals need to know what is expected of them”

Indeed, Sir Patrick.

How about responsible and honest behaviour in high office?

How about not assuming that you are the lord and master of the public, rather than their servant?

milesahead
milesahead
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

“Individuals need to know what is expected of them”

By 2030, to own nothing and be happy!

David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  milesahead

Vallance and his Globalist millionaire chums excepted of course. More like ‘own everything and be greedy for more’!

Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  milesahead

Yep – it would be a whole lot easier if he would just come out and say it instead of all the hinting at it which a lot of people won’t get.

rtj1211
rtj1211
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

Patrick Vallance, the individual, needs to know that he will never fly again, will never eat out again and will live the rest of his corrupt, criminal existence within 30 miles of his current abode. He has no right to appeal, no right to legal due process and will be locked up in Belmarsh until he commits suicide or dies of natural causes if he breaks the terms of his new pointless life.

David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

Vallance never accepted his academic equal Mike Yeadon’s challenge that he was lying and knew he was lying about every aspect of the “Covid Scamdemic”

Yeadon told Vallance to sue him for his claim and get the debate into the open.

Vallance has zero credibility – but lots and lots of money.

Cane Corso
Cane Corso
3 years ago
Reply to  ellie-em

I’m eating belly pork tonight and thinking of buying a 1950’s Cadillac. And I signed my local Greens election nomination papers. Just dissent and refuse. And enjoy life.

Slow Burn
Slow Burn
3 years ago
Reply to  Cane Corso

You can keep your Cadillac. My Dodge Viper, when I can afford to top it up, is a much better ride.

rtj1211
rtj1211
3 years ago
Reply to  Cane Corso

Well done you. I just ordered a second ‘half a lamb’ from a UK organic farm a week or so back, having ordered half a lamb and half a pig back in November.

Snooty-nosed Vallance can whistle for all the notice I will take of his self-righteous entitled hectoring. I trust he won’t be in the Royal Box at Wimbledon this year after all his Coronavirus pseudo-science has been demonstrated to be fraudulent rubbish. It wouldn’t do for the AELTCC to be associating themselves with fifth rate failures, after all.

David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  Cane Corso

Enjoy chicken dinners before they kill them all with their planned “Bird Flu”scam !

They ought to be able to get the price of a surviving bird up to ÂŁ30 quite easily with fuel and feed inflation as well!

Be sure “Porker” Johnson will not be going without !

PhantomOfLiberty
PhantomOfLiberty
3 years ago
Reply to  ellie-em

Remember he was the top of Fauci’s list of people to contact when he wanted to suppress the story of the Wuhan lab leak.

Fraser Nelsons Underpants
Fraser Nelsons Underpants
3 years ago
Reply to  ellie-em

He has been utterly discredited as a scientist. Why on earth is his ilk still listened to? He should be ashamed to show his face in public, let alone be making statements like this.

rtj1211
rtj1211
3 years ago

He is listened to by the ignorant Westminster village and Whitehall paper pushers because he has a title: ‘Chief Scientific Advisor’.

He is scribbled about by the MSM because as prostitutes, their chief pimps reside in the Westminster Village. Only deluded sheep continue to be their punters.

loopDloop
loopDloop
3 years ago

He believes in net zero. He’s an idiot. I bet he won’t be giving up steak. It’s the little people who need to abandon hope.

huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

Precisely. As far as I am concerned anybody spouting “net zero” is a WEF harlot, a dishonest idiot and not worth paying attention to.

Hopeless - "TN,BN"
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

I expect he’ll be going pescatarian, with Caviar, turbot, salmon and some nice Essex natives (oysters, that is); all washed down with the finest English sparklings.

Criminals and gangsters often live high on the hog, before Nemesis catches up.

rtj1211
rtj1211
3 years ago

Last summer he was partaking in whatever the Royal Box feeds its occupants on Centre Court.

I trust the AELTCC realises he is a fifth rate discredited fraudster before they extend him another invitation…..

David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  rtj1211

But he’s ‘among friends’ there , isn’t he?

LMS2
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

When the people telling me that climate change is an emergency start behaving like it’s an emergency, I might take notice.

rtj1211
rtj1211
3 years ago
Reply to  LMS2

Bill Gates’ mansion by the ocean in San Diego says it all.

TSull
TSull
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

He doesn’t believe in net zero. He believes in imposing it on the peons.

Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

I’d look at his bank accounts before calling him an idiot. I expect he doesn’t believe in ‘net zero’ at all.

rtj1211
rtj1211
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

He does believe in ‘Let them eat cake’ for the plebs, though.

I wouldn’t fancy his chances during a Peasants’ Revolution….

rtj1211
rtj1211
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

Very important to catch Vallance in the equivalent of ‘Party Gate’.

Anyone who sees him ordering meat in a restaurant: take a photo, go over and challenge him recording it all on your iPhone and make sure it goes viral.

Anyone who sees him at an airport, do the same. If he is flying first class, his career is over.

If he uses private jets, he needs locking up in Belmarsh.

Vallance needs to be the human guinea pig spending 5 years eating Gates’ factory-made insect food.

He believes in all that rubbish, so he can live the life according to all that rubbish.

David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

There are a few things they can do before “abandoning hope”.

Hopeless - "TN,BN"
3 years ago

Perhaps a Net Zero Salary is best for this grubby speculating creep. I’d like to see evidence of his cycling to work, such as from where to where.

As for eating less meat, he’s off my shopping list when we become cannibals, and I won’t be consuming any Soylent Green if he’s an ingredient.

iane
iane
3 years ago

Well, mum always told me to eat all the greens!

Hopeless - "TN,BN"
3 years ago
Reply to  iane

Even the recycled ‘ooman ones?

Slow Burn
Slow Burn
3 years ago

“Perhaps a Net Zero Salary”

Everyone will soon learn the true meaning of that phrase sooner or later.

Except those like him that will carry on pretty much as usual.

Hopeless - "TN,BN"
3 years ago
Reply to  Slow Burn

I expect so.

Slow Burn
Slow Burn
3 years ago

You know so.

Jabberoid666
3 years ago
Reply to  Slow Burn

I agree, and Mr. Brand [not everyone’s cuppa tea] also gets it…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzIPJfqFETU

Fortunately he has a 5.5m tube subscriber base…. so slowly, slowly… the game plan of globalist control tool of choice CBDCs the reality of which…the message is getting out.

I also suspect places like Denmark will see a steady increase in libertarian leaning immigrants, you know the kinda folks who liked the world Old Normal….

And those not choosing to live under a draconian state of techno-bio-security-digio-apartheid – compliant vaxxd v unvaxxd untermensch…

milesahead
milesahead
3 years ago

Strong language, but spot on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c

Paul B
3 years ago
Reply to  milesahead

George never disappoints!

Paul B
3 years ago

Get Fu…. Wait, can we swear yet?

Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

This isn’t Twitter, ma’am.

Slow Burn
Slow Burn
3 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

It’s always 6pm somewhere.

Nymeria
3 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

I’ll say it for you: get fucked, Vallance.

MikeHaseler
3 years ago

The first sacrifice is to get rid of the “science” chef.

Slow Burn
Slow Burn
3 years ago
Reply to  MikeHaseler

Butterfly.

Slow Burn
Slow Burn
3 years ago
Reply to  Slow Burn

(was looking at the ‘Vikings’ version BTW.)

rtj1211
rtj1211
3 years ago
Reply to  MikeHaseler

And the ‘Chief Medical Officer’.

PhantomOfLiberty
PhantomOfLiberty
3 years ago

Just as a sausage factory burns down in Essex following a spate of meat processing plants burning in the US and the BBC tells you you will eat insects and be happy. I fear we will see many more such burnings Sir Patrick – please tell me I am wrong.

https://news.sky.com/story/harlow-fire-firefighters-tackle-huge-blaze-at-sausage-factory-in-essex-12599288

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61182294

https://twitter.com/poudapada/status/1518295703553933312

Bella Donna
3 years ago

Yes there does seem to be an inordinately high number of food processing factories going up in smoke – it must be deliberate!!

LMS2
3 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

If they’re not deliberate sabotage, then it stretches coincidence to beyond belief.

rtj1211
rtj1211
3 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

Of course it’s deliberate. It’s MI6 and the CIA at work as usual.

Emerald Fox
3 years ago

“Residents are urged to avoid the area and people in Harlow Town have been advised to keep doors and windows shut.”

What if you’ve cut the bottoms of your doors off so that The Virus can’t get you? (although it’s unclear how this actually works).

rtj1211
rtj1211
3 years ago

Perhaps if Patrick Vallance eats meat at home his home could be considered to be a place where meat is processed in Vallance’s gut.

Would be a terrible shame if his multimillion pound pad went up in smoke, eh?

David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago

Food processing plants are being hit by aircraft and mysteriously burning down all over the US – Vegan Green Terrorists at work supported by the State?

We are under siege! Where are the Police?

Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago

Why doesn’t he **** off and mind his own business?

Hester
Hester
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Because he is a perfect human being and as such he has every right to tell you how to live your life and like all such perfect humans he will stop at nothing to ensure you are created in his image, he is God like in his own head. That’s why he is saving us from ourselves.

rtj1211
rtj1211
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Because he signed up to pathological lying in public for money and he crossed the rubicon in 2020.

DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago

Just Brits?

Slow Burn
Slow Burn
3 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

No, these see you next Tuesdays want everyone cycling to their ‘job’ in a state approved outfit The Chairman had that bit right.

What could possibly go wrong?

Rogerborg
3 years ago

That grifting charlatan can “expect” all he likes, I will not eats the bugs.

huxleypiggles
3 years ago

That’s just what I wanted to hear and although I might not be flying again soon I fully intend to take not a blind bit of notice of this a#shole.

After the last two years government advice can F right O.

Hester
Hester
3 years ago

Will we also own nothing and be happy? the directives are straight out of that nasty little group of terorists the WEF and Davos forum. So Valance has his feet in both big Pharma and in the WEF camps, the money and power must be heady. When will this man join the rest on trial.

Slow Burn
Slow Burn
3 years ago
Reply to  Hester

You’ll like it. It’s just like Communism, only different, this time we’ll do it properly.

Slow Burn
Slow Burn
3 years ago

“It’s important that the messaging [on climate change] isn’t designed to cause fear or upset, it should be about making sure people understand what the situation is,”

I think we ‘understand what the situation is’ … Astronomical fuel bills, switch my heating and vehicle all electric, (again, at astronomical cost), no flying, no meat, no, no, no …

Oh, and don’t throw your vote directly down the nearest grid. It’s recyclable.

richardw53
richardw53
3 years ago

Could Sir Patrick – or anyone else – tell me what the nature of the climate crisis is when satellite temperature, sea level and weather show no worsening trend in response to C02, and when atmospheric CO2 concentrations show a better correlation with global population than almost anything else.

Ross Hendry
3 years ago

I hate this arrogant ponce. Telling us all how to live, who the hell does he think he is?

Behavioural change? I’ll tell him where that’s needed – in our GP surgeries where the doctors are still pretending to be too busy to see patients face to face, even though the Covid scam has run its course. Nice work if you can get it, eh?

Seems to me that there are big changes going on in our society, seemingly whether we like it or not. Vallance, Witless et al couldn’t be happier about it apparently.

Sooner or later there needs to be street action.

Richard Austin
Richard Austin
3 years ago

We should not aim to frighten people because that’s not helpful” says the bastard who lied to the entire nation every single day for two years scaring the wits out of most of them! I wonder what his ÂŁ600,000 of shares are worth today?

Bella Donna
3 years ago

Well Mr Vallance. When I want your advice I’ll ask for it until then ………..

huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

STFU!

Is that sufficient to finish the sentence Bella?

(I hope you don’t mind).

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prod_squadron
3 years ago

Bologna in Italy is trialling a social credit score from September. It’s based around the “virtuous citizen”….

Ross Hendry
3 years ago
Reply to  prod_squadron

That’s where it’s going.

Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  prod_squadron

Was that the “smart Wallet” or something

Zionist
Zionist
3 years ago

What a fucking miserable twat of a cunt he is.

HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
3 years ago
Reply to  Zionist

Eloquently put!👍

Nymeria
3 years ago
Reply to  Zionist

Perfectly correct.

sjonesy1999
sjonesy1999
3 years ago

Of course Vallance won’t practice what he preaches because that is for the great unwashed. Why cant he just sod off.

RW
RW
3 years ago

Vallance ought to put some substance to his statements. Eg, what precisely means I fly less than I used to. I’ve chosen to cut the number of international conferences on dolliwhop and hupadoodledo I attend by 2?

I haven’t owned a car since the mid-1990 which means I’ve been doing all my everyday travel on foot since then. Sometimes, I go somewhere by train, at most once per month, usually, but not really every month. In the last 11 years, I’ve travelled to Germany by plane 4 times. I guess this puts me climate-wise so much ahead of what Vallance is doing that I needn’t worry about behaviour change for the rest of my life.

John001
John001
3 years ago
Reply to  RW

Heating a rural house for a year (with oil) can easily use as much as a return flight from London to Vancouver or Seattle. That’s a long flight (I went to Vancouver in 1993 … we got quite a spectacular view of Hudson Bay.)

Does Vallance live in a large rural house, heated by oil? (A lot of well-off people do.)

He’s probably one of the people who flies 5-10 times a year and thinks that everybody has a similar lifestyle to the upper-upper-middle class. No they don’t. It’s multi-millionaires with 100,000s of pharma shares who perhaps need to reduce their flying by 90, 95% or more. A ‘C2, D or E’ family taking one holiday per year in a warmer part of Europe seems a fairly trivial part of the problem. I don’t like to see the poor told how to behave by the rich.

disgruntled246
disgruntled246
3 years ago

In the spirit of all things eco, I am going to recycle another commenter’s excellent post from another article and say
Nope. You can f*ck right off you criminal cnut.

prick
3 years ago

Just go away. Roll a big fat one and chill mate. Raid the fridge, get the munchies. Just fuck off.

RedhotScot
3 years ago

The last time we were told not to eat something, it was eggs.

Didn’t work out to well for mad Edwina then either.

epythymy
epythymy
3 years ago

Make private jets illegal

A passerby
A passerby
3 years ago

Please lie down on the couch, tell me, have you tried to save the people living on this planet that you say now also needs saving?

Doom Slayer
3 years ago

Slightly ot but i had one of those delightful moments yesterday. Came across a few cyclists blocking my way and had to accelerate round them when they finally decided to get into singleish file. As i checked my mirror i could see several riders covering their mouths with their arms as they appeared out of the suspended contents of my obviously clogged catalytic converter, dpf and exhaust pipes. oooppps.

Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  Doom Slayer

I opened my car door on a cyclist once, made me chuckle just a bit.

LMS2
3 years ago

It’s not unarguable. It’s entirely arguable.
as someone on another site said, to put it into perspective, 100 years ago, out of 10,000 molecules making up the atmosphere, 3 were carbon dioxide. That’s increased to 4 molecules in 10,000. And that 1 molecule in 10,000 has made global temperatures increase to dangerous levels.

RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  LMS2

A bit more perspective. If mankind’s emissions are responsible for a warming planet then, by the arithmetical values of climate alarmists (not mine), it would take us 25,000 years at current rates of emission to raise the temperature of the planet by 2ÂșC.

LMS2
3 years ago

What dangerous CO2 and temperature increase??

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Slow Burn
Slow Burn
3 years ago
Reply to  LMS2

Were I able to design a Planet with that kind of ‘profile’ then I would want the ‘Award’,