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NatWest combs customer accounts – and tells them to go vegetarian

Bank says feature is designed to ‘empower customers to understand their carbon impact’

www.telegraph.co.uk

Here's some of the article:

NatWest is telling customers to stop eating meat and to drive electric cars after combing their accounts to calculate their carbon footprint.

A “Carbon Footprint Tracker” on the bank’s mobile app uses the transaction data of customers and makes recommendations on how to reduce the amount of carbon production their shopping supports.

The bank has told customers to consider mending their clothing as opposed to going to high-street shops to buy new outfits, as well as stopping drinking dairy milk in favour of plant-based alternatives.

NatWest also outlines a number of ways customers may change their diets to become more eco-friendly, such as going vegetarian and partly vegan as well as cutting out beef and trying “meat-free Mondays”

 

[delilah]

Quite right too. Livestock agriculture contributes 7% of total UK GHG emissions. Cutting meat and dairy is one of the most effective ways of reducing your environmental impact. Well done Nat West.

 

[delilah]

@C.J don't be angry. They are your words, not mine ( I assume you pay levy ? )

https://weeatbalanced.com/sustainability/

 

[Mc115reed]

I bank with NatWest … been considering leaving for a while they’re bloody stroke too deal with

 

[britishblue]

As Dominic would say 'That C**t with the stilletos' is how I would describe Dame Alison Rose!

 

[melted welly]

Remember when this idea was first mooted?

The ad on the radio about getting rewards on your spending for greener choices.

And the conspiracy theorists said this is the first tentative step and will ultimately be used to control what you are allowed to spend your digital currency on (coz the banks would also like to get rid of cash) according to your social credit score.

Difference between conspiracy theory and fact appears to be around 18months now.

 

[Swarfmonkey]

Just more ESG BS. Interesting to see that TSB trialled it and then dumped it. Presumably because the licensing cost exceeded any extra £ it brought in from the gullible.

Personally I find it hard to take a bank seriously when it goes down the nagging and moralising route. Especially when it's a bank that was fined over 260 million quid only a couple of years ago for playing fast and loose with the law...

 

[neilo]

I bank with NatWest … been considering leaving for a while they’re bloody stroke too deal with

Disillusioned with HSBC, I was considering jumping to NatWest after a chat with their area manager. I think that plan has certainly stalled now.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Remember when this idea was first mooted?

The ad on the radio about getting rewards on your spending for greener choices.

And the conspiracy theorists said this is the first tentative step and will ultimately be used to control what you are allowed to spend your digital currency on (coz the banks would also like to get rid of cash) according to your social credit score.

Difference between conspiracy theory and fact appears to be around 18months now.

I hope a lot of this sort of stuff I hear about is all conspiracy theories, unfortunately all the pieces of the jigsaw seem to fit.

 

[jondear]

NatWest combs customer accounts – and tells them to go vegetarian

Bank says feature is designed to ‘empower customers to understand their carbon impact’

www.telegraph.co.uk

Here's some of the article:

NatWest is telling customers to stop eating meat and to drive electric cars after combing their accounts to calculate their carbon footprint.

A “Carbon Footprint Tracker” on the bank’s mobile app uses the transaction data of customers and makes recommendations on how to reduce the amount of carbon production their shopping supports.

The bank has told customers to consider mending their clothing as opposed to going to high-street shops to buy new outfits, as well as stopping drinking dairy milk in favour of plant-based alternatives.

NatWest also outlines a number of ways customers may change their diets to become more eco-friendly, such as going vegetarian and partly vegan as well as cutting out beef and trying “meat-free Mondays”

I hope the APP tells people to not go on Aircraft flying around the world on unnecessary journeys for Holliday's.What a time to be alive ! Everyday is a new joke !

 

[Wolds Beef]

@neilo Try Virgin (Clydesdale/Yorkshire) bank. The chap at the very top understands agriculture (He ran Woldmarsh).
WB

 

[T Hectares]

NatWest combs customer accounts – and tells them to go vegetarian

Bank says feature is designed to ‘empower customers to understand their carbon impact’

www.telegraph.co.uk

Here's some of the article:

NatWest is telling customers to stop eating meat and to drive electric cars after combing their accounts to calculate their carbon footprint.

A “Carbon Footprint Tracker” on the bank’s mobile app uses the transaction data of customers and makes recommendations on how to reduce the amount of carbon production their shopping supports.

The bank has told customers to consider mending their clothing as opposed to going to high-street shops to buy new outfits, as well as stopping drinking dairy milk in favour of plant-based alternatives.

NatWest also outlines a number of ways customers may change their diets to become more eco-friendly, such as going vegetarian and partly vegan as well as cutting out beef and trying “meat-free Mondays”

Yet across at Lloyds I had their soil association exchange program tell me that I need to have herbal leys, introduce pasture fed cattle and direct sell beef to be sustainable
Kind of sums up the disjointed views on sustainability

 

[DrDunc]

@neilo Try Virgin (Clydesdale/Yorkshire) bank. The chap at the very top understands agriculture (He ran Woldmarsh).
WB

Having heard good things agricultural about them, I tried to move the current account there before covid

Turned out size of the overdraft facility that I wanted was too small. They'd only take me on if I took out a "term loan" instead

Stayed with with RBS (royal bank of Scotland, lead offenders in the last banking scandal). They're part of the Natwest group, and together with Couts and the isle of man banks

I wonder how much of the twaddle being peddled by the Natwest is moral, and how much is marketing? Banks don't usually care about anything but making money, be it conning customers out their assets (RBS), or laundering insane volumes of drug dealer cash (HSBC)

Surely the shareholders haven't permitted someone with an environmental conscience (however flawed in practice) to control the advertising message?

It's this continues, they'll be telling thy great unwashed and unemployed to stop going for foreign holidays

 

[toquark]

Quite right too. Livestock agriculture contributes 7% of total UK GHG emissions. Cutting meat and dairy is one of the most effective ways of reducing your environmental impact. Well done Nat West.

Next level trolling there @delilah

 

[toquark]

This will be the same NatWest who censored their own customer’s account access based on their political leanings?

“But they’re a private business - they can do business with whom they choose” plenty were screaming.

Yeah, well I think it’s clear who’s business they don’t want, and it’s mine.

 

[delilah]

Next level trolling there @delilah

It's a point I will keep making until we get our own house in order. There is barely a day goes by without one of these 'look who is having a go at us now' threads. They are utterly pointless all the time we are agreeing with them.

 

[Horn&corn]

@neilo Try Virgin (Clydesdale/Yorkshire) bank. The chap at the very top understands agriculture (He ran Woldmarsh).
WB

The guy at the top owns an airline company and won’t want that blamed for climate change. Better blame the cows that have been around since before travel was invented

 

[Against_the_grain]

Watched a fascinating youtube interview on the Joe Rogan experience with Elon Musk. He was talking about why he bought Twitter and basically said it was to save the world from itself.
Where twitter is based in San Fransisco is ultra left and he said the views of this minority were being broadcast to the world through the medium of twitter and that it was completely dissproptinate to the realities of civilisation. Ignore the silly wig but there are some intersting points from one of the most powerful people in the world
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I think that eveyone has had enough of the greenwashing and we are seeing (finally) a push back against this and liberalist views.

Wardys waffle shows this well this week as well when talking about the EA and the badgers!

 

[toquark]

It's a point I will keep making until we get our own house in order. There is barely a day goes by without one of these 'look who is having a go at us now' threads. They are utterly pointless all the time we are agreeing with them.

I get your point, the problem is that they are essentially implementing a de facto social credit system. Eat meat? Well only this option is available, drink milk? Life just became more expensive, drive a ICE car? Sorry no bank account.

It’s all very well agreeing with it because you accept we need to reduce C emissions. Thing is, one day soon they’ll make a decision you don’t agree with or that doesn’t suit you and it’ll be too late for you to do anything about.

This is an anti authoritarian argument not an anti CC one.

 

[JP1]

NatWest combs customer accounts – and tells them to go vegetarian

Bank says feature is designed to ‘empower customers to understand their carbon impact’

www.telegraph.co.uk

Here's some of the article:

NatWest is telling customers to stop eating meat and to drive electric cars after combing their accounts to calculate their carbon footprint.

A “Carbon Footprint Tracker” on the bank’s mobile app uses the transaction data of customers and makes recommendations on how to reduce the amount of carbon production their shopping supports.

The bank has told customers to consider mending their clothing as opposed to going to high-street shops to buy new outfits, as well as stopping drinking dairy milk in favour of plant-based alternatives.

NatWest also outlines a number of ways customers may change their diets to become more eco-friendly, such as going vegetarian and partly vegan as well as cutting out beef and trying “meat-free Mondays”

What does it say exactly - behind a pay wall