Thread: Telegraph: Everyone in Britain could be given a personal ...

From 1939 until the early 1950s food ratoning provided the "parasitic vitality" that kept the wartime ID card scheme alive. ID cards had to be presented to get ration cards. Could "carbon rationing" provide the parasitic vitality for a new ID card scheme?

The implications of something like this for the database state are horrific. It is the perfect excuse to monitor everything the citizen does under the guise of environmentalism.

NASA have some interesting figures- http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/ A 0.6 deg warming over the last 130 years is hardly that scary when you consider the mini ice age of the Dark ages and the fear of the 70's and 80's that we were all about to be frozen to death by the next (overdue) ice age. The first four graphs would also indicate that sea temperatures have actually stabilised and may even be declining over the last few...

I have the same concern, Andrew. Climate change arguably beats even terrorism and paedophiles as a sacrosanct cause that nobody dare criticise. Anything with that much traction needs to be watched carefully!

Andrew Watson wrote: From 1939 until the early 1950s food ratoning provided the "parasitic vitality" that kept the wartime ID card scheme alive. ID cards had to be presented to get ration cards. Could "carbon rationing" provide the parasitic vitality for a new ID card scheme? Yes . But that's not all. Rationing created the spiv, the charming likely lad with a thin moustache, a trilby and a vanful of...