Who is lying?

A letter to the Guardian:

I admire Greta Thunberg’s actions on climate change, but I can’t wholly agree with her that ‘MPs have lied.’ MPs are held to account by their electorates, and as is clear even in the advertisements which appear in the Guardian, even the best informed voters like cruises to ever more exotic places, they like ever bigger cars, they aspire to lifestyles which come with higher carbon emissions. In other words, we are all deceiving ourselves, and elected politicians who challenge our cognitive dissonance will fear paying a high price for it. Whilst Extinction Rebellion represents one train of thought, the Yellow Vests in France seem to be motivated not by climate change (Macron’s supposed justification for higher fuel prices) but by personal economics. A courageous government would swiftly introduce carbon rationing, with diminishing, tradable rations for each of us. The price of carbon would be determined by a formula based on the Contraction and Convergence framework, to ensure globally equitable burden sharing. Will it happen? Not until London is inundated I suspect.