Britons face intensive surveillance of their diets & waste disposal habits

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Britons face carbon spotchecks

It's the price of 'one planet living'

By Andrew Orlowski • Get more from this author

Posted in Environment, 26th September 2008 04:49 GMT

Britons should be subjected to random carbon spotchecks and intensive surveillance of their diets, transport and waste disposal habits, says the Government's architecture and design quango in a new report today.

The word "monitoring" occurs 19 times in the 32-page publication by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). If the proposals in the report What Makes An Eco Town?are implemented few aspects of life will go unrecorded.

CABE says the strict monitoring is needed to ensure the carbon footprint of the eco-town dwellers remains at one-third of the British average, which is the requirement for what's called "one-planet living", the quango says.

Examples of monitoring include "the ecological footprint of the diet of 100 randomly selected residents", and the number of shops selling local produce. Waste disposal and transportion habits will also be scrutinized.

The Carbon Cult also wants to choose what you food you eat, and will carefully pre-select only the most righteous retailers. Veggies will be pleased to read that the report recommends "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."

One statistic that won't be recorded is the mortality rate from suicide caused by living in such a grimly regimented and obsessively monitored environment. Or maybe that's the plan. The Government proposes 15 such towns to be built for over 100,000 citizens.

As we have already reported, other eco-town restrictions include a 15mph speed limit for vehicles , and toilets that don't flush. Residents would also be "fined" for leaving the eco-town.

You can download the report from here - and it's well worth a read. It has the zeal of a Maoist revolutionary order, as written by the most anally-retentive bureaucrat who ever lived. ®

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/26/carbon_spotchecks/

[ScottA]

Scary stuff. I bet we'll see this in the US in the near future.

[glenn kangiser]

It is reported that the military are now being deployed on US soil.  Maybe they will watch and help.

[ScottA]

I could use some military help actualy. I need some brush cleared and I understand they have some very nice toys for doing stuff like that. Perhaps if they aren't too busy arresting protestors they could lend a hand.

[glenn kangiser]

....come and see me, Scott..... perhaps we will finally get the chance to meet in person.   Warning - I'm pretty scary.   Ask PEG.

[ScottA]

My wife says the same about me. Long drive to CA from here and I don't fly anymore but maybe someday.

[glenn kangiser]

I know some caves....

I also refuse to fly...

I have imprisoned myself in the US as I will not fly and subject myself to a perforated colon by the TSA.

[glenn kangiser]

Here is some info from the Army deployed on US soil - I haven't read it all so don't kill me.....

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/24/army/index.html

For more than 100 years -- since the end of the Civil War -- deployment of the U.S. military inside the U.S. has been prohibited under The Posse Comitatus Act (the only exceptions being that the National Guard and Coast Guard are exempted, and use of the military on an emergency ad hoc basis is permitted, such as what happened after Hurricane Katrina). Though there have been some erosions of this prohibition over the last several decades (most perniciously to allow the use of the military to work with law enforcement agencies in the "War on Drugs"), the bright line ban on using the U.S. military as a standing law enforcement force inside the U.S. has been more or less honored -- until now. And as the Army Times notes, once this particular brigade completes its one-year assignment, "expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one."