Why the Latest Pro-Rationing Study is Really Good News
Kit Knightly
Another day, another academic study/tabloid headline/cringily earnest editorial normalising the idea of rationing.
The powers-that-shoudn’t-be LOVE rationing. They would die to start rationing everything for everyone (except themselves, naturally).
For years now, barely a few months can go by without some academic or institution penning a pro-rationing editorial or publishing some study about the benefits of “a limited choice environment on pro-climate consumption patterns”.
…I made that particular sentence up, but it could easily be real.
In March 2020, practically the moment the fake “pandemic” began, establishment voices were all abuzz about rationing.
During the food riots of 2022, Iran instituted food rationing linked to biometric IDs.
In Italy in 2022/3, Operation Thermostat was a form of “pro-peace” quasi-energy rationing.
In February 2023, an academic study from the “inter-disciplinary applied ethics centre” at Leeds University argued that:
…rationing has been neglected as a policy option for mitigating climate change [and] that rationing could help states reduce emissions rapidly and fairly.
The most recent example claims:
Is THIS the key to tackling climate change? Almost 40% of the public would agree to World War II-style RATIONING of meat and fuel to slash carbon emissions, survey reveals
That’s a Daily Mail headline reporting the result of a large-scale survey conducted by the “Climate Change Leadership Group” at Uppsala University.
You can read the full study in Nature or a summary on phys.org.
As you can see, I used the term “large scale survey” loosely. The survey polled people in only five countries – US. Brazil, Germany, India and South Africa. It surveyed ~1700 people from each for a grand total of 8654 people.
That would be ~0.0004% of those country’s combined population of 2.1 billion. Or roughly one millionth of the population of the world. Hardly a sample size to draw anything meaningful from.
…that’s even supposing we can rely on impartial climate change-related research from something called the “Climate Change Leadership Group” in the first place.
But if we give the survey the benefit of the doubt and assume it does have any kind of value as a set of data, it’s actually not a bad result.
Let’s see the silver lining here.
The climate change psy-op has been in place for decades, an endless narrative machine spewing out propaganda with monotonous regularity. Rationing, more specifically and more recently, has likewise been the subject of positive messaging all over the news/media and in academic circles.
So, the good people of the “Climate Change Leadership Group” took 8654 of the most propagandised people to ever exist and surveyed them. We know how surveys work, they’re not just questions and answers, they are codified to try and produce the answers the surveyors want to get.
But anyway, surveys completed, these researchers took the resulting data and analysed it. And when I say analysed, I mean manipulated. We know how these systems work, they massaged the numbers, more than massaged them. They oiled those numbers up and gave them the business.
In short, it is more than safe to assume that this number is as big as they could possibly make it.
And what did they end up with?
Almost 40%.
That’s it.
You know what that means? That means over 60% of people would not support rationing.
And it’s not just rationing either, the survey asked about rationing and taxation of food and fuel individually,
and if you look at the study’s results graph you can see not one single surveyed measure got over 50% support in even a single country:
Neither taxation nor rationing received majority support anywhere.
That’s despite years of exposure to propaganda and billions spent on social conditioning, neither of which appears to have worked.
A potential win for the human race. Or the 0.0001% of it they surveyed, at least.
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It seems to me that they have the aura of a losing team when they show their devious faces these days. But they’ve crossed the Rubicon…
BRICS Trading System Shakes U.S. Farming!
BRICS growing their own food instead of importing food from the U$A. Who woulda thought it?
Rice. BRICS is growing and trading their own rice. Let them!
I tell you this is an area where we Americans choose not to interfere with.
Do you want to stand bare footed in 30cm water with a big hat on putting rice seeds down in the water with your bare hands, and later take the rice plants up again bare footed in the same water with you bare hands.
We had enough trouble to get the American people out in the cotton fields at that time.
Forget it. Its not important. They still eat the Hamburgers.
The very idea of rationing only makes sense on a planet with infinite resources. Humans do not live on such a planet despite claims to the contrary. In the real world, rationing would be a totally superfluous notion since, just for starters, half the human population already lives under conditions which, for whatever reason, make rationing look like a Sunday picnic.
But more to the point, as resources are depleted (and they will be given the gluttony of just the world’s militaries alone) natural rationing will become all too real – as it always is when resources are depleted by animals (e.g., when wolves are killed off deer overpopulate until nothing remains for them to eat).
The real irony, of course, is that the absolute best way to ration is to reduce production – which, for obvious reasons, will never be allowed lest politicians get booted almost overnight by profit-less corporations and unemployed workers. So by all means let’s keep producing but then turn our backs on what’s been produced. I’m sure that will work well!
< half the human population already lives under conditions which, for whatever reason, make rationing look like a Sunday picnic. >
Which is the strongest argument for a Socialist Leader like Clement Attlee to impose rationing — to ensure that “the other half” of humanity get their Sunday picnic.
“From each according to his means to each according to his needs” — New Testament, Acts of the Apostles.
See my post (below) on the beneficial effects of rationing in wartime Britain.
And of course there is the imminent threat of money rationing via CBDC’s once they have implemented their wide spread use, coming soon. Imagine not being able to purchase something you really need because the corporate technocracy that rules over you says you can’t.
Realistically though so many people use Apple Pay/Google Pay already and all the Satanic Cabal need do is turn off the networks under any pretence true or false.
No Cash=No Freedom
CBDC’s=Digital Prison
Rationing has not been uttered in the US, and best not be. That bull jive will go absolutely nowhere, here. Good grief. As it is, FAKE meat sales are only 1% of all meat sales. FAKE food is losing big time as vegan’s health incrementally destroys peoples bodies and mental health. In fact, i’d say that all the FAKE, the artificial, the manufactured substitutes for Earth’s proprietary ecosystem are failing like the snake oil con jobs they are.
And the simple retort that holds the truth about CC is… “So, whatever happened to pollution? Is carbon as deadly as the thousands of harmful, unregulated industrial chemicals and waste products corporations have spewed across Earth? Or is carbon, along with the natural warming and cooling cycles of Earth, a convenient and profitable diversion to keep The People from regulating a safe planet and messing with corporate profits?”
The meathead 1% are failing.
” vegan’s health incrementally destroys peoples bodies and mental health.”
Setting aside your wobbly syntax, do you have any data to back up your assertion?
I’m not vegan but I know quite a few. My empirical observation does not jibe with your unsubstantiated assertion.
Apart from whomever goes vegan because it’s “trendy”, most of the folks who adopt this choice do it as a way to personally reduce the suffering of sentient beings in our vale of tears. Is that something you object to?
Yes, remember pollution??
So convenient that we’ve changed the nomenclenture. Pollution just evokes “dirty”.
Dirty air, dirty water, dirty dirt.
Carbon neutral, carbon footprint, carbon capture, carbon (love this one) sequestration.
Carbon offset.
If we can just capture and annihilate that dastardly carbon, then we can pollute to our hearts content.
We here in the great state of Massachusetts will be adding to the lexicon.
The MBTA transportation board has initiated (mandated actually, without anyone’s notice or approval) a plan whereby all towns that have a Commuter Rail Station (commuter rail is a quick step above the bus and trolley car route.) will be obligated to build C40 housing near the station stops or will lose their already established federal funding.
Guess what the C in C40 stands for?
Guess what the “housing” stands for? Well, it isn’t “houses”, that’s for sure. I imagine it will be like the rest of the apartment structures that have popped up all over the Boston MA area in the past 5 years. Big box apartment buildings reminiscent of something from the East Berlin cold war era that cost more in rent than an average polluter can afford. Located in the most inocuous, ugly areas of the city. Beside the (hidden) 5G towers.
I have a sneaky suspicion you won’t get a very hot shower or a very cool air conditioner with a C40 lease.
Already, one brave town has opted out of C40 housing, but who knows if they will be strong armed into an offer they just can’t refuse.
Apparently this is a world wide initiative. I don’t do the description justice. Just search C40 housing. You just can’t make this stuff up.
Glyphosates and neonicotinoids have already wiped out 95% of all bees and butterflies. The powers-that-be are forced to consider a future without herbicides and pesticides, which will necessarily create a world with less food and more biblical swarms of locusts ground into the grain meal. The don’t expect us to eat insects whole; they do want the lower the public’s resistance to the inevitable presence of locusts in the increasingly scarce agricultural products.
< a future without herbicides and pesticides will necessarily create a world with less food >
Not necessarily. Read the articles on Food First in India by Colin Todhunter. Traditional agriculture can be more productive per acre than industrial agriculture.
It’s very strange that the majority ARE in favour of truth rationing.
The legacy media / MSM are still believed by a huge amount of people, a lot of them otherwise intelligent.
And some people still believe in politicians and religious ‘leaders.’ ???
The BBC have deteriorated after being re-modelled by TB.Liar in his own image: from traditional rationing of Truth to modern surplus of Lies..
I get it but in reality there was no survey/poll they just lie.
Britain had a coalition government during WW2, headed by Churchill and Attlee. Churchill made the big speeches while Attlee looked after the rationing and other humdrum chores. As a result, not only did the country pull together to defeat the Luftwaffe but Britain became the only country in history to improve the nutritional health of its people while fighting a major war.
“When Mr.Churchill chaired the meeting there would be no agenda and we would go home after midnight thinking we had attended an historic occasion. When Mr.Attlee chaired the meeting there would be an agenda, we would work through it and go home at 5pm thinking we had done a good day’s work” — A secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office.
So it was really Clement Atlee who was responsible for the Bengal Famine of ’43?
No, he’s not the Colonial Secretary. Anyway, the colonies had a wide degree of autonomy, its one of the reasons why the British Empire was as large and relatively stable as it was.
< So, the “Climate Change Leadership Group” the most [Anglo Capitalist] propagandised people to ever exist and surveyed them. … But anyway, surveys completed, these researchers took the resulting data and analysed it. I mean manipulated. We know how these systems work, they massaged the numbers. In short, it is more than safe to assume that this number is as big as they could possibly make it. And what did they end up with?
Almost 40%.
You know what that means? That means over 60% of people would not support rationing >
Bravo! Who wrote this effective little cheer for the basic sanity of the human race.
Kit Knightly wrote it.
we were subjected to severe forced rationing in personal relationships as face-to-face conversation was declared a health hazard.
and fast forward to today, it seems many of these rationed relationships remain broken.
US dock workers strike should not impact supermarket
and grocery store shelves – unless all those perishables
are imported… However, if the truckies went on strike…
“Why India’s easing of export curbs is important to global rice trade India accounted for more than 40 per cent of the world’s rice exports in 2022, a record 22.2 million metric tons out of a total of 55.4 million. India has removed most of the export curbs it imposed on rice shipments in 2023 with immediate effect, as above-average monsoon rains are expected to boost crop yields amid overflowing stocks in state granaries. ”
Not happening in India. Without GMOs or bio-dynamic agriculture India has over production.
As I always said to my children: “Give me the control of India’s and China’s rice, and your Papa control the world”.
I invested all my money in India’s rice and are therefore extremely rich today……..ehhh that saying compared to the poverty I could have faced if not following my own advice. 😁 .
‘I was raised in a working class family, a big family.
There was constant emotional rationing. One mum
for us many – so she had to be sparing.’
Yep.
As long as the sales of private jets, super yachts, fifty million dollar homes, doomsday mansions, Beluga, Maseratis, Dom Perignon and high class prostitutes, rationing is a FUCKING JOKE (pun intended).
In the year 2525, if man is still alive, only the rich will eat the steaks, and only the rich will have the guns, whoa, whoa.
Maybe 2025 might be more accurate.
That’s the thing that gets me about all this rationing, and green bullshit, and eating bugs, etc. I went to a high end restaurant a few weeks ago for a birthday, and right up front under the sign that said, “steaks handcut fresh daily”, was a fairly large sampling of all the steaks they sold, perfectly coiffed in their red blooded glory, waiting to be eaten by those that can afford it. I used to work downtown Portland, Oregon and a block away was a place called Morton’s steakhouse, a very high end place that, obvious to its name, specialized in very high end steak dinners. Extra street parking for the limos that would pull up and drop of the rich people (if you have to ask how much, you can’t afford it). I don’t know about elsewhere now (haven’t traveled other than my region since 9/11), but that’s how it is in every city in Amerika. I’m sure there are very high end vegetarian places, etc., but for the really rich, there’s nothing like those places. Another one up the road is Michael Jordan’s Steakhouse, a fairly common after retirement business for big time athletes (even Rocky).
Rationing for the serfs but not for them. Same for guns. While they slowly try to eradicate our second amendment rights (not to mention the first amendment), the more armed security they require to keep the pitchforks at bay. So, while the politicians’ rail against semi-automatics, their security teams, not to mention law enforcement in general, have everything under the sun. The hypocrisy is becoming deafening.
The movie “Soylent Green” is set in a dystopia where real food is a luxury beyond the reach of most ordinary people.
It is not a joke for animal farmers already being shut down in Europe. And farmers being paid to stop cultivating food of to allow the land to revert to wilderness. Including very large land-owners in US, not forgetting Bill Gates. And consumers facing higher costs and more adulteration. Where is the democracy in all this?
There you go, food rationing, money rationing, and truth rationing all part of the steady diet of the hybrid war long waged against us. Like a noose being slipped ever so slowly around the neck of the intended victim.
I sailed to the capitol Vilnius, Lithuania close to Russia just after the Wall had fallen. Been in Poland and Letland, Riga too.
Outside the capitol they had these “Sovjet Architecture gems”, and inside the Capitol and cities there were rationing all over. One type milk, one type bread, etc.
We returned to Europe, Gotland, Visby, and the difference was enormous.
The supermarkets in Sweden was an Eldorado for a buyer. I guess you could call this the difference between rich and poor.
No doubt Sovjet had their sides, no unemployment, 100% social security, time to focus on your discipline whatever it was, but there were not many smiles.
This how rationing looks like 😅 .
I know it’s confusing, but I think you mean Latvia. It might be Letland in your language.
Right Latvia, Riga. The last one is no easy one too, I think it is Estonia, Tallinn.
for clarity, so Lettish means Latvian, not Lithuanian? I always wondered what those Lettish riflemen were . .
One doesnt need a hundred different poorly made shoes to prevent a monopoly, one pair to last the test of time, is all one needs.
Absolutely. Most men could go for that, but not our women.
Foot, meet bunion.
Rationing has always been normal in the real world.
it called being poor.
going shopping men’t looking at the cheaper food prices and working out what can be brought and not.
Heating was rationed.
using the phone was rationed.
What a strange and blatant attempt to “normalize” the New Normal! Being poor is not comparable to enforced rationing.
Same thing only different.
“Being poor is not comparable to enforced rationing”
often, being poor is ‘deliberately made poor‘.
skewed financial and economic policies (wealth re-distribution policies) can impoverish certain sections of the society.
social engineering is real. social engineering is hard at work.
the latest pandemic was, among other things, a wealth redistrubution project where governments redirected trillions of dollars from ordinary people into the bank accounts of the already filthy rich.
when your income is cut in half or utterly destroyed by government overt and/or covert actions that is forced rationing.
That they raise this issue at all is a slap in our faces. Anyone not comatose can see the prevalent poverty, and the adulterated and poisoned food. In the glorious Free World, the results include illness, insanity, homelessness, crime and selectively brutal enforcement.
says the rich spoil person talking with an silver spoon in her mouth now seeing this come to there part of the world through fear pornfear MIC alt media.
Rationing tokens/vouchers have always been a thing for the poor.
food banks massive in the 2010 (notice no articles about this ever on OFFG)
USA food stamps massive in the 2010 Reagan era
so dont pretend this is about new normal as this is about your middle lot taking 50+ years to catch up and pretending this is new normal now it could affect you which it wont as you have money.
In the real real world this has been happening so maybe go to the church and see the food given out in the harvest for thoses in need aka
poor = rationing.
welfare = rationing.
disabled benefits = rationing
unemployment = rationing
rationing is a thing for the low income and poor;
U.K now wants to make PIP payments via vouchers = rationing.
where is the big uproar by alt media about this.?
exactly.. no where.
Yes, all goods and services have to be ‘rationed’ somehow because supply is always limited. Usually this is done by price equalising demand and supply.
Formal rationing by quantity is instituted when an administration wishes to ensure that those with the deeper pockets cannot buy up the supply leaving others with nothing.
If rationing by quantity is bring planned, then planners must be anticipating severe supply constraints, which might cause social unrest.
https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2024/09/17/289-project-2050-part-one/
If you got money this does not apply.
As long as the biggest money-bags foresee a profit in a severe shortage, one can be created. That is what Conjob-19 was.
Thank you very much. Those of us who are poor highly resent middle-class people whining about slight adjustments to their abundance.
loads and loads of problems with these surveys, they do an awful job of predicting election results, they are based on squishy assumptions about demographic representativeness, and of course the wording of questions asked strongly biases the responses received
I wonder if this label “WWII style” was included in the text presented to the poll participants, or was it added by the author reporting the results?
the memory of the Second World War is regularly trotted out as an instrument of manipulation, ever more cynically and unscrupulously now that almost no one who lived through that war remains alive still
it provides a convenient template for facile moralizing about the battle between absolute good and absolute evil in a way that peace activists and critical thinkers of past generations, who were not reluctant to call bs on this narrative, abhorred
in our city during the virus hysteria a mural appeared depicting the 1940s American propaganda icon “Rosie the Riveter”, but this updated version has her wearing a mask over her nose and mouth and proudly displaying the site on her arm where she received her government-sponsored injection
yes, those were the golden days of patriotism, when everyone cheerfully played their parts as cogs in the glorious military machine and kept the factories humming so there’d be no shortage of firebombs to drop on Tokyo and Hamburg!
but even beyond this issue of framing, you have to be skeptical in general of the idea that it matters what the majority believes
there will always beyond any doubt be many issues about which the majority is simply wrong, due to indoctrination, mass-media brainwashing, simple old-fashioned prejudice, intellectual laziness, ethical bankruptcy, etc
we should not be using any measures of popular acceptance, in the final analysis, to justify our convictions about what is right
The man who designed Britain’s WW2 rationing system, Jack Drummond, was murdered with his family while on holiday in France. It’s one of France’s most famous unsolved crimes where it’s known as ‘L’Affaire Dominici’ after the local man there was an attempt to pin the crime on. The reality looks more like an intelligence hit.
There’s always Soylent Green – no shortages, no rationing there,
and, would go well with little billy gates vat-goop ‘meat’ – a hearty
meal for the proles. (Better than Winston Smith’s ‘cabbage for
breakfast, cabbage for dinner, and cabbage for tea.’ And there’s
Monty’s ‘spam’ – plenty of ‘spam’ – “‘spam’ with everything’… No
rationing there.
No need for teeth either.
That film also features the use of fixed bicycles to generate electricity.
Here is YouTube farmer Harry Metcalf explaining the dramatic drop in UK food production over the last few years. Down by two thirds on his farm between 2021 and 2025.
Countryside stewardship scheme.
https://youtu.be/xJCrfujVZIk?t=777
And is the state of Victoria, Australia, they are rationing egg purchases after killing over 2m. chickens due to the non-existing bird flu.
Just waiting for food processing plants to blow up, as in the US.
Victoria: ‘The Education State’
is the propaganda emblazoned on our number plates.
Hah, hah, hah, hah!
Our collective IQ was revealed during the $cam.
Higher than forty.
Lower than forty two.
‘Life, the Universe and everything,’