More than a fifth of people find the idea of meat rationing acceptable. That number, along with the prospect of meat rationing itself, might sound absurd. However, if our ruling class gets its way, that number might just go up.

Among a certain subset of climate scholars, there is something of a subfield dedicated to nudging, guilting, and tricking the masses into giving up their meat. One prime example of this comes from a group of Swedish researchers who published the results of a multicountry survey in September in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, a journal that is part of the prestigious Nature Portfolio.