Well, that didn’t take long:
From the ZeroHedge article (bold and italics omitted):
An advocacy article in… Nature by four environmental “experts,” lays out one such very disturbing proposal—a means of restricting individual behavior known as “personal carbon allowances,” or PCAs, for short…
Individual allotments would be “deducted from the personal budget with every payment of transport fuel, home-heating fuels and electricity bills…”
“People in shortage would be able to purchase additional units in the personal carbon market from those with excess to sell,” the authors assure us.
What that really means is that the rich could avoid giving up their private planes since they could just buy up other people’s carbon allowances…
“Recent studies show how COVID-19 contact tracing apps were successfully implemented… in several East Asian countries such as China, Taiwan, and South Korea,” the authors applaud…
“[T]he many digital-tracing algorithms that were developed and tested provide initial valuable information for the design of future apps that—for example—estimate emissions on the basis of the tracking the user’s movement history…”
“AI could be especially beneficial for PCA designs that also include food-and-consumption-related emissions.”
In other words, if you eat that hamburger, we will know and deduct from your PCA accordingly!
Glancing through the Nature article itself, I stumbled upon this gem (bold added):
The aspiration of the international community for a ‘sustainable recovery’ from the COVID-19 pandemic… and the new behavioural and social norms formed during the pandemic, may favour PCAs.
Hmm… How convenient!