By Jo Nova
They really do want to turn men into women
The men are the climate vandals who carelessly wreck the Earth. If they would just eat the tofu and drive less, the world would be a better place, eh, especially for bourgeois academic femmebots in London. This is the kind of junk research that Big Government funding feeds. Someone spent a lot of money, and nobody learnt a thing.
Naturally, the Guardian lapped it right up:
Ondine Berland, LSE Associate
Cars and meat are major factors driving a gender gap in greenhouse gas emissions, new research suggests.
Men emit 26% more planet-heating pollution than women from transport and food, according to a preprint study of 15,000 people in France. The gap shrinks to 18% after controlling for socioeconomic factors such as income and education.
But really the 26%-more-planet-polluting-men shrinks to a third once you account for men being, you know, bigger and more likely to travel further.
Eating red meat and driving cars explain almost all of the 6.5-9.5% difference in pollution that remains after also accounting for men eating more calories and travelling longer distances, the researchers said. They found no gender gap from flying.
The enemy of course, is “traditional gender norms”. Real men cause storms and floods. Toxic masculinity is raising Earths Temperature:
Our results suggest that traditional gender norms, particularly those linking masculinity with red meat consumption and car use, play a significant role in shaping individual carbon footprints,” said Ondine Berland, an economist at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a co-author of the study.
From the paper, these genius economists think red meat consumption is just a male identity thing:
“Red meat and car — high-emission goods often associated with male identity — account for most of the residual, highlighting the role of gender differences in preferences in shaping disparities in carbon footprints.”
Where are words like body-fat, muscle percentage, basal metabolic rate, and bone mass?
They’re not in this paper. The average man has 50% more muscle mass than the average woman (around 36kg compared to 23kg). He has 13 or 14 kilograms of bone, and she only has nine. All up, he has 15 to 20 kilograms of extra structural mass that needs constant repair and rebuilding. Is he supposed to turn into a girl to save the planet?
Women have a higher percentage of body fat which is metabolically comatose most of the day and also insulates them more from heat loss. Even at rest, skeletal muscle burns about three times as much energy as our fat does. A body with more muscle will need more energy and more protein.
So the researchers big concession to men was to study carbon footprints and even (sometimes) control for “calories”. Seriously? The hottest statistic in the abstract (and repeated in the press release) was that women emit 26% (!) less carbon than men in food and transport, but they admit this does not include “biological differences”. They think there was something meaningful about a food statistic which treats men and women like they are supposed to be the same? Food? Any five year old at the family dinner table knows this is stupid.
It turns out the London School of Economics is also the London Preschool of biology.
All around the world men eat more meat than women — it’s not a cultural thing, it’s a human thing.
One study of 20,000 people from 23 nations found that men ate more meat than women nearly everywhere. And when men and women had more freedom and wealth to choose whatever they wanted, the gender gaps grew even larger. In poor countries, presumably, the men would like to eat more meat but can’t afford to. Does anyone care about those men?
Men are also more likely to be injured in sport and at work, they take more risks, and their metabolic rate is higher. More to the point, they evolved to deal with risks and injuries, so it’s hardwired — the meat-eating men conquered the vegans and recovered faster after the battle.
The Guardian continues the cultural warfare, just so you know, the horrible types who use “soy boy” include JD Vance and a misogynist…
The term “soy boy” has been used by far-right figures including the US vice-president, JD Vance, and the self-described misogynist influencer Andrew Tate to present progressive men as weak.
And just to twist the manipulative knife — the researchers say women find it easier to be climate goodie goodies, while men are the selfish climate deniers, because they don’t want to give up their red meat to save the planet.
The French researchers suggested the gender differences in emissions could explain why women tend to be more concerned about the climate crisis, arguing the greater personal cost of reducing their emissions could cause men to avoid grappling with the reality of the climate emergency.
I say teenage girls are easily fooled and grown men are braver at standing up to ostracism and petty names.
The transport statistics are almost as silly as the food ones. The biggest gender gap in male and female driving habits was not when men and women were single, but when they lived together and had children. When couples had kids, he drove more than his wife did. She was pushing a pram around while he went to work. That’s your big “gender gap”. A women with little kids is not driving less because she cares about climate change.
The truth is this whole work of cognitive vandalism was probably aimed at manipulating young women, not men. (Think of the saccharine flattery). The Blob likes to wind up those pretentious 20-something girls who’ll then rank the climate soy-boy above the strong man in the all important dating game. This leverages the pressure on other men to play by the globalist rules. It twists the pecking order.
Real men probably don’t read the Guardian, but if they have to, some will ride a bike and eat fish to get laid.
It’s a death by a thousand cuts for free men.
REFERENCE
Ondine Berland, and Marion LeRoutier (2025) The gender gap in carbon footprints: determinants and implications, London School of Economics, Working paper 424, May 14, 2025
Image by Ivana Tomášková from Pixabay
“cognitive vandalism” – i LIKE this, perhaps we could also give it a “them” twist and use – cognitive violence, we know how much they love to misuse that tag to push a false narrative & get something banned
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Thanks again Jo for reminding us that we live in a manipulative and twisted society.
One bit of misinfo that was used to beat the world over the head was the “cholesterol” drama where, once again, the science was either hidden or not known by the forces at work.
Cholesterol was constantly painted as “bad”, and to be avoided at all costs and, of course, the remedy led to the evolution of the “soy boy ” era.
The reality is that there are two types of cholesterol and the HDL type is essential to our wellbeing.
When driving up the valley it’s common to see cattle yards with ramps leading up to the jump off point for cattle to move onto the trucks taking them off on a sight seeing trip.
The reminder that we are also being corralled and herded is there; the cattle follow the leader and so do we.
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The Blob likes to wind up those pretentious 20-something girls who’ll then rank the climate soy-boy above the strong man in the all important dating game. This leverages the pressure on other men to play by the globalist rules. It twists the pecking order.
No it doesn’t. Real men are attracted to real women and vice-versa, and thankfully this will never change.
I mustr dust off my copy of that 1980s classic “Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche”…
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“Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche”…
I just call it Bacon and Egg pie or ‘Truckdrivers Quiche’.
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Friend named his big new dog “Quiche” because it ate real men. Geoff S
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Have you ever heard of a woman in child birth requesting a male midwife by preference? No, neither have I.
Do we now blame men for this lack of equality because men produce 26% more planet heating emissions than women do?
Geoff S
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Diesel-driving meat-eating blokes can play this back-to-front word game too:
Ondine = Enid No!
Marion = No, I Ram.
Poor little French tarts, do they not know a diamond ring – that gift of eternal love – is pure carbon, clocking in a planet-destroying 100% footprint, as opposed to their purely bovine verbal excrement.
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More men drive big trucks.
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Yet another paper authored by “misandrists”.
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Humans cannot eat most plants. Vegetables are the group we can eat and it’s a small group. Fruit of various sorts which have developed from a symbiotic relationship to spread seeds. We can’t eat grass, only seeds, the big discovery which created our modern world. So we eat animals which can eat grass, herbivores. Gorillas eat mainly leaves and so spend most of their days sitting down chewing. They do little else. And still the male Gorillas are much bigger and release more CO2 and more methane. So it’s nothing to do with meat.
Photosynthesis hydrates CO2 into carbo hydrate. It’s what you do with it. But eventually it goes back to CO2 and H2O. It’s the energy cycle of life. Not anyone’s fault, least of all male humans. All living things are made entirely from CO2, from fungi to bluewhales, bacteria to bactrian camels. And all living things breathe and combust carbohydrates into CO2 and H2O. Only one species has just decided that is wrong and CO2 is toxic.
And the digestion of cellulose leads to methane, as with ruminants like cattle and deer. So if we could eat leaves, CO2 output would be as high and methane levels would go up dramatically.
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You can tell what an animal eats and how from the teeth. Birds from their beaks.
Humans have canines for meat and molars for chewing and tearing edges with incisors. This reflects our evolution. The canines reflect our descent from animals like dogs. But we have lost the ability to eat cellulose and only the useless and dangerous Appendix is left of the system. The discovery of agriculture where we learned on 10,000 years ago to grow our own seeds each year led to cities where hunters needs square kilometers each for prey, you could now have hundreds of people in a single square kilometer.
But before that we have discovered in Eastern Turkey there are elaborate stone buildings in the pre agricultural hunter gatherer world. Possibly this was enabled by the discovery of fire which meant we could cook meat and eat much faster, freeing up a lot of time from hunting. It’s a question of what you do with that time and the people of Eastern Turkey built fabulous dressed stone structures and carvings of fabulous animals and more in relief. Which has upset the old idea that agriculture predated civilization. At least in one place in the world, civilization predated agriculture.
The discovery of Gobelki Tepe was just the first. There are now many sites older and it is changing our view of human history.
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Sadly, many animals including giant herbivores like elephants who spend their lives chewing will die from starvation after they have worn out their teeth. My view of vegetarianism is that it doesn’t change the equation. You need so much energy to live and will therefore generate as much CO2 by digestion. So I consider myself a second degree vegetarian. I only eat animals that don’t eat other animals. With the exception of fish which almost always eat other fish. And whiting are fine as they are herbivores.
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And the biggest animal ever on planet earth, the Blue whale, has cut out the middle men. They eat krill, a tiny prawn which feasts on phytoplankton which is part plant, part animal, a single celled planimal. (my own word)
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“Men emit 26% more planet-heating pollution than women from transport and food, according to a preprint study of 15,000 people in France.”
What about womens contribution via their endless purchasing of clothing, consumer goods and other junk.
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I guarantee they won’t be serving insects at WEF or Climate Crisis love-fest gourmet banquets.
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Most men are just taller and have more muscle mass than most women and their skeletal frame is much heavier and thanks to Jo Nova for reminding us of these facts.
Add that up and these larger male humans must feed their NATURAL LARGER body mass.
As for cars I shouldn’t even bother to reply but the type of mobile jobs men are employed in like truck drivers and farm workers + others employed on building sites or the military etc covers a lot.
This so called study is so loopy it could be called a waste of time and money.
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Paul Joseph Watson discusses the phenomenon of low testosterone “soy boys”.
https://youtu.be/Dlpqcc_hNdM
That video will definitely trigger any soy boys out there.
The Left want to see men demasculinised and feminised. And it shows. Just look at the pathetic examples of “men” they produce.
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Strangely enough, the preferred immigrants favoured by the Left come from an extremely male-dominated hypermasculine war-loving misogynistic religion and culture where women are considered items of property to be used and abused at the will of the men. That type of false supposed “masculinity” truly is toxic, not standard traditional Western masculinity as we used to have in the West which so-called “feminists” describe as “toxic” and who prefer men to be submissive wimps.
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Maybe we should be supplying soy drinks to all the young, fighting age, country shoppers. 10 doses a day should be enough to have them sit down to pee.
What kind of society would encourage dosing their own with plant based products that warp the mind? Unless it was planned….
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We all know climate change is driven by excess electricity usage (coal ) and hot air. So, logically climate change is being caused by hair dryers. Who uses hair dryers the most? Women. It’s all you women causing the oceans to boil and the earth to fry.
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Eating fish would make me more attractive to women? Sounds a bit fishy.
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Jo,
Please don’t publish articles like this. You’re giving our new opposition leaders something “green” to offer in their feeble attempts to attract voters from the now defunct Greens.
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Story this morning that the lovely Lydia Thorpe is going back to the Greens, so maybe a bit less defunct. Imagine having LT back in the senate representing the Greens again, banging on about climate change, red meat, toxic male hood and white supremacy?
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They highlight these insignificant gender details as if it’s a matter of life and death to the planet but remain silent about China’s enormous CO2 increase. It’s never been about the climate and never will be.
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Thanks Jo, great article yet again. Seems there is a never ending series of rubbish from the climate freaks. This one is a classic. The “researchers” who come up with this junk should get a real job and get out and get their hands dirty instead of writing their gibberish. We are all weary of their fantasies, plus none of their so called prophesies have ever come to pass, like tipping points and no more Arctic ice. Time for crazy climatologists to admit they are just plain wrong.
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