WWII-Style Rationing of Meat, Clothing, and Energy Needed to Fight Climate Change, Say UK Academics
Governments should ration meat, clothing, and fossil feuls in order to fight climate change, researchers at Leeds univiersity said.
Governments should ration meat, clothing, and fossil feuls in order to fight climate change, researchers at Leeds univiersity said.
The spectre of future energy blackouts is once again looming in Germany, with the country’s plan to cut consumption falling significantly short amid cold winter weather.
France may still see power cuts and therefore will seek to import energy from Britain and other European neighbours, a utility chairman said.
UK government officials are set to urge the general public to turn down their heating as fears over possible winter blackouts continue to loom.
It’s only October, and in the mostly Democrat-run American Northeast, heating oil is already being rationed.
French mayors have warned the Macron government that the country is heading “straight into the wall” over surging energy costs in the country.
Despite the ongoing gas crisis, Liz Truss has promised that the United Kingdom will not ration energy over the coming winter months.
The Eiffel Tower has now officially been hit by energy rationing measures, with Parisian authorities announcing that the landmark will go dark earlier to save energy.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that Europe must “fight the fundamentalist greens” if it hopes to solve its energy crisis.
People who heat their homes above a certain temperature in Switzerland during the Winter face fines and up to three years in prison.
A dark Christmas could be forthcoming in Britain and Ireland this year as officials in both countries consider not putting up festive lights over the ongoing energy crisis.
President Ursula von der Leyen called for “mandatory” energy rationing during peak hours in order to “flatten the curve” of demand.
Russia’s decision to disable the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to the EU has seen the price of gas spike by 35 per cent.
Russia has reduced the amount of gas it is sending to a major energy company in France, the Prime Minister of which has already warned that energy rationing over the winter is now on the cards.
Spanish populist party VOX has vowed to challenge the newly passed energy decree in Spain’s constitutional court, claiming the decree violates the rights of Spaniards.