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The World Economic Forum Is Coming for Your Cars
Wall Street Journal ^ | June 14, 2023

Posted on 06/15/2023 1:30:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway

How about the Davos crowd first give up their private jets?

If the World Economic Forum (WEF) has its way, the number of cars around the world will be reduced by 75% by 2050. How ironic that the denizens of Davos who spend much of their lives being chauffeured back and forth from international conferences hate cars.

The goal is buried in a briefing paper released last month called “The Urban Mobility Scorecard Tool: Benchmarking the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility.” It points out that more than two-thirds of the world’s population will be urban by 2050. If we are to meet their needs and achieve the climate goals of the Paris Agreement, the report recommends “electrification, public transport and shared mobility.”

This will mean a lot fewer cars: “Reduce vehicles from a potential 2.1 billion to 0.5 billion.” That is a radical drop with fewer than 30 years to do it. But this, it says, “could slash emissions from passenger vehicles by 80% compared to a business-as-usual scenario—reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by 3.9 billion tons a year.”

World Economic Forum’s May 2023 Global New Mobility Coalition ‘briefing paper’ “in collaboration with Visa” – The forward was co-written by Douglas Sabo, the Chief Sustainability Officer with Visa and the WEF’s Jeff Merritt who is the “Head of Urban Transformation” at WEF.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: automotive; cars; donatedonaldtrump; donatefreerepublic; donatetrump; wef; worldeconomicforum
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1 posted on 06/15/2023 1:30:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I will peel SchwBs cold dead fingers off my steering wheel if he tries to steal it.


2 posted on 06/15/2023 1:37:05 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: nickcarraway

Climate Change is not something most Americans are concerned about.

Try to take their automobiles away from them, and I don’t think you’re going to be prepared for the reaction.


3 posted on 06/15/2023 1:37:23 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: nickcarraway

WEF: ESAD


4 posted on 06/15/2023 1:37:58 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trintarian. Deal with it!)
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To: nickcarraway

Just when the Red Chinese and India Indians can actually afford these things in serious numbers, European elites try to tell them no.


5 posted on 06/15/2023 1:39:48 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Pox
Try to take their automobiles away from them, and I don’t think you’re going to be prepared for the reaction.

I am seeing little pushback from people or politicians about the insane regulations that will raise the cost/decrease the convenience of cars in coming years, even beyond the whole EV thing.
6 posted on 06/15/2023 1:43:01 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: nickcarraway

all so they can always have a good parking space

good time to get in on the ground floor of

uber rickshaw


7 posted on 06/15/2023 1:43:35 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Cost is relative.

Taking your primary mode of transportation is a direct assault on an individuals well being.

When the slow drip suddenly turns into a raging torrent, the situation is no longer comparable, IMO.


8 posted on 06/15/2023 1:45:13 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: Pox

I just bought a 2004 Chevy Venture with 160,000 miles. I intend for that and my wife’s 2018 Toyota Avalon to last all of our days. I will spend more than the vehicles are worth in coming years to keep them going. I am in AZ, so rust is not a big problem.


9 posted on 06/15/2023 1:47:22 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: nickcarraway

“... shared mobility” only applies to the masses. The elites will continue with their private jets and limos.


10 posted on 06/15/2023 1:48:11 PM PDT by Schatze (It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.)
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How about the Davos crowd first give up their private jets?

I dream of a world in which they are all headed to Bilderberg in their private jets and suddenly all their cabins depressurize and the jets go full Payne Stewart for a thousand miles until they all crash into the ocean and disappear.

11 posted on 06/15/2023 1:59:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: nickcarraway

To the world’s ruling elite, a mobile society is a threat to them.


12 posted on 06/15/2023 2:13:47 PM PDT by drypowder
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Rush’s song “Red Barchetta” predicted this.


13 posted on 06/15/2023 2:19:15 PM PDT by Texas resident (We are living through Barak's fundamental transformation)
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To: nickcarraway

“The World Economic Forum Is Coming for Your Cars”

Can’t see how that would affect Americans. But Putin invading Russia, now that is something to REALLY get worked up about.


14 posted on 06/15/2023 2:26:57 PM PDT by BobL
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LOL.

Thanks to government education and media, in twenty years the average American will have next to nothing.

He won’t wonder why he has so little and will be ignorantly happy to have the crumbs that he has.


15 posted on 06/15/2023 2:26:58 PM PDT by Jacquerie
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To: Texas resident

Ahhh, so that’s why no women know about this.


16 posted on 06/15/2023 2:27:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I believe if they really start confiscating cars and gas appliances and home ACs all of a sudden all the elites private jest and limos will be mysteriously destroyed by people just trying to “Save the Planet”.


17 posted on 06/15/2023 2:29:13 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (AS )
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To: nickcarraway

What the IMF envisions dovetails with “the 15 minute city” concept. The idea isn’t to pry your hands from steering wheels, but to make you hate having to use them. One example - the re-working of the main roadways in New Haven CT imagines Oslo or Copenhagen. In the past year they doubled the traffic lights and added crosswalks and speedbumps. Pure folly, except it costs us all freedom and money. The panhandlers love it.


18 posted on 06/15/2023 2:30:38 PM PDT by BillyBonebrake
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To: BobL

I hope Russia bombs Davos in January. The elimination of autos is an existential threat to their main source of income.


19 posted on 06/15/2023 2:30:57 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: nickcarraway

No problem..... my car self identifies as a bicycle 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


20 posted on 06/15/2023 2:44:50 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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