‘Climate Change’: Grift of the Century, Part III
Smart cities are dumb. From Robert Williams at gatestoneinstitute.org:
The ostensible goal of the climate change project is to get to “net zero” carbon emissions by 2050. To do that, global leaders, led by the WEF and the UN, are apparently planning to radically transform the lives of everyone on the planet except their own.
Their plan, officially launched as the UN “Agenda 21” in 1992, during the UN’s Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and now renamed “Agenda 2030,” — still under the pretext of saving the planet — sets in motion initiatives aimed at controlling every detail of people’s lives.
“On the surface, these 15-minute neigbourhoods might sound pleasant and convenient. But there is a coercive edge. The council plans to cut car use and traffic congestion by placing strict rules on car journeys. Under the new proposals, if any of Oxford’s 150,000 residents drives outside of their designated district more than 100 days a year, he or she could be fined £70,” according to the UK website Spiked. Furious residents went out to protest the measures — to no avail.
Popular demand, democratic inclusion and the free market play no role whatsoever. It reminds one of China — which is no coincidence. The idea embedded within the concept of the 15-minute city is not a new one – it has been practiced in Communist China since 1949. Tracking people’s mobility is – and remains – a way for self-appointed “elites” to efficiently control what they seem to regard as the “great unwashed (and incapable of making important decisions) masses.”
“The means of control [in China] have greatly evolved [into unparalleled surveillance]…. No one pays with money anymore: over there, they pay with WeChat or Alipay, through their phone, which is very easily to control…. The Party’s goal of controlling people hasn’t changed, it’s been updated.” — Jean-Philippe Béja, Emeritus Senior Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research and the Center for International Studies and Research at Sciences-Po, forumviesmobiles.org, November 13, 2019.
There is plans for a 15m concentration camp and carbon capture in the county just outside Crapitol City on the way to Harold the Brain Acres, and I’m not happy about it.
CW II is urban vs. rural?
You can still find America 1.0 if you go rural.
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