You will own nothing and you will be happy.

The climate official who spearheaded a Biden administration rule boosting electric vehicles at the expense of gas-powered cars wants you to live a “simpler life” to combat climate change, behavior she acknowledges “most people” will not engage in “unless forced.”

President Joe Biden’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Friday unveiled new fuel efficiency standards, which acting administrator Ann Carlson said will “reduce harmful emissions.” Carlson has long stressed the need to force Americans to live climate-friendly lives. As an environmental academic at UCLA, for example, Carlson published a 2007 piece titled, “Only by Requiring Lifestyle Changes,” which argued that people would not reduce their energy consumption “voluntarily.” As a result, Carlson wrote, the U.S. government must “induce behavioral change” by implementing policies that “make the bad behavior more expensive.”

In a similar 2009 blog post titled, “Save Us From Ourselves,” Carlson called on Americans to “use less electricity, take more public transportation, consume less, live more simply and so on” to fight climate change. Carlson argued that most people “could benefit from a simpler life” but will not “engage in dramatic behavioral change unless forced,” highlighting the need for government intervention. “Governments and markets need to take steps to make us pay for the full costs of the behaviors in which we engage … they need to limit our infrastructure choices to energy efficient ones,” the Biden administration official wrote. “In other words, we need to be saved from ourselves.”

Despite Carlson only having a background teaching environmental law at UCLA, she had no experience for the position Biden picked her for. But His Fraudulency chose Carlson anyway and, despite Biden withdrawing Carlson for consideration by the U.S. Senate, she remains as NHTSA acting director. Not surprisingly, according to the Beacon, Carlson has issued a slew of new rules designed to favor electric vehicles at the expense of gas-powered ones with the obvious intent of destroying the market for fossil fuel powered vehicle market.

What Carlson is doing is along the lines of what she has written and spoken about, that it is only by using government force in order to make people live more climate-friendly lives which, in turn, will reduce their fossil fuel consumption resulting in avoiding the horrors of climate change. Come hell or high water, Ann Carlson will see to it that people live a simpler life. Not surprisingly, there is little proof of Carlson practicing what she preaches.