Posted on 07/26/2022 9:38:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
Cutting down on "wasteful" car ownership will help to avert a "climate apocalypse," says the WEF
Washington Moves Forward with Plan to Ban Non-Electric Cars by 2030
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is calling for an end to private car ownership. A recently published paper calls for an end to “wasteful” private vehicle ownership in favor of public transportation and communal cars. “The average car or van in England is driven just 4% of the time,” the WEF paper states. It then calls on car owners to sell their vehicle because, “Car sharing platforms such as Getaround and BlueSG have already seized that opportunity to offer vehicles where you pay per hour used.”
Ending private car ownership is essential to addressing climate change, the WEF argues. The forum goes on to advocate for the same principles to be applied to city and home designs as well.
“A design process that focuses on fulfilling the underlying need instead of designing for product purchasing is fundamental to this transition,” the WEF wrote. “This is the mindset needed to redesign cities to reduce private vehicles and other usages.”
A number of European nations and U.S. states have already passed legislation that will ban the sale of non-electric cars as soon as 2030. Washington, New York and California have already passed such measures while a growing number of EU member states have done the same.
In Ireland, the government has told citizens that they will be packed into densely populated cities in order to combat climate change. Drivers will be forced off the roads as part of a plan that will “revolutionize” people’s lifestyle and behaviors.
In addition, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has directed global governments to drastically cut oil supply to domestic consumers in order to encourage compliance by “nudging” people out of their private cars.
The IEA 10-point plan to drive “changes in the behavior of consumers” and reduce gas demand at the pump includes reducing speed limits, working from home three days a week, more electric cars, car-free Sundays, more cycle lanes, cheaper public transport and greater use of long-distance trains over planes, Breitbart News reported.
In order to avert a “climate apocalypse”, the government plans to force people “out of private cars because they are the biggest offenders for emissions” with proposals that include banning fossil fuel vehicles from towns and cities nationwide to intentionally cripple ordinary motorists.
By that logic, the WEF also supports eliminating private ownership of toilets, which are similarly "barely used". Toasters? No way you could justify private ownership of a toaster. Barbecue grill? Forget about it. Come to think of it, rely upon a central food distribution service to allocate nutritious insect protein to you. You'll be happier and the world will be .02 degrees cooler for it.
“10 years from now, the people who today say to drive only EV’s will be the same people who’ll say EV’s should be banned.”
When has any measure ever been enough? Climate, abortion, gun control, taxes, there is never an acceptable compromise. They are always just stepping stones to something much more radical. I don’t think they even know what it is.
Ok I’ve only seen it spelled one way.
Someone has to own them. Who gets to decide? Once car ownership is deemed officially wasteful, look for homes to be next, in favor of downtown/inner city high-rise rat mazes. And the public trans everyone is forced to use will always avoid going anywhere near the country estates inhabited by our masters.
Saw that on “The Terminal List” the other night.
Pretty cool!
Synopsis:
The World Inside
by Robert Silverberg
Earth 2381. Welcome to Urban Monad 116. A lofty spire reaching nearly two miles into the sky, the one thousand stories of this building are home to over eight hundred thousand people living in peace and harmony. In the year 2381, nearly all of Earth’s 75 billion live in the hundreds of monolithic structures scattered across the globe, with the exception of the small agricultural communes that supply the Urbmons with food. Life in Urbmon 116 is highly regulated, life is cherished, and the culture of procreation is seen as the highest pinnacle of god’s plan. Conflict is abhorred, and any who disturb the peace face harsh punishment, to risk being labeled a flippo, for whom there is only one punishment, being sent “down the chute” to be recycled as fertilizer. But inside their glorious world are a few who dare to doubt and dream:
Aurea Holston, a beautiful young bride who fears leaving the only world she’s ever known.
Jason Quevedo, a historian, searches records of the twentieth century hoping to find the root of his discontent with the perfection of Urbmon life.
Siegmund Kluver, a young and ambitious administrator, strives to reach the top levels of the Urbmon?s government and discovers the civilization’s dark truths.
Michael Statler, a computer engineer, harbors a forbidden desire. He dreams of leaving the building, of walking in the open air and visiting the far-off sea. This is a dream he must keep secret. If anyone were to find out, he’d face the worst punishment imaginable.
The World Inside is a fascinating exploration of society and what makes us human, told by a master of speculative fiction.
Reminds me of this from the BOOK Doctor Zhivago...
Yurii’s talk with Pogorevshikh on the train to Moscow...
Part 2, chapter 5: 16
Imperturbable as an oracle, he prophesied disastrous
upheavals in the near future. Yurii Andreievich inwardly agreed
that this was not unlikely, but the calm, authoritative tone in
which this unpleasant boy was making his forecasts angered
him.
“Just a moment,” he said hesitantly. “True, all this may happen.
But it seems to me that with all that’s going on — the chaos, the
disintegration, the pressure from the enemy — this is not the
moment to start dangerous experiments. The country must be
allowed to recover from one upheaval before plunging into
another. We must wait till at least relative peace and order are
restored.”
“That’s naive,” said Pogorevshikh. “What you call disorder is
just as normal a state of things as the order you’re so keen
about. All this destruction — it’s a natural and preliminary stage
of a broad creative plan. Society has not yet disintegrated
sufficiently. It must fall to pieces completely then a genuinely
revolutionary government will put the pieces together and build
on completely new foundations.”
The WEF think they are our leaders? Well, in that case they can act like it. They can get rid of their security people and start riding the NY and Chicago subways.
And they can also eat bugs...
WEF needs to be nuked from orbit.🙄
They also want you to kill your pets.
Lur erstwhile “betters” won’t even be driving their own limos. Or pumping their ownngas. Or standing in a grocery store checkout line. Where they should be is a landfill.
“That’s naive,” said Pogorevshikh. “What you call disorder is just as normal a state of things as the order you’re so keen about. All this destruction — it’s a natural and preliminary stage of a broad creative plan. Society has not yet disintegrated sufficiently. It must fall to pieces completely then a genuinely revolutionary government will put the pieces together and build on completely new foundations.”
Notable exceptions to this demand is for WEF, Deep State, Big Bankers, Hi Tec, Hollywood and other elite beings to not be humbled with public transportation.
I stand corrected. But you forgot that you need a sufficiently high enough ESG score to even have the app on your phone!
“I call for an end to Klaus Schwab’s pulse.”
I’ll second that.
If my ESG score isn’t high enough, do I even have a phone?
“I call for an end to Klaus Schwab’s pulse.”
I can’t really with this point of view.
bkmk
I call for an end to private jets.
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