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The WEF Wants to Reduce Car Ownership by 90 Percent and Nudge People Into Eating Plants and Bugs
American Greatness ^ | 29 Jul, 2022 | Debra Heine

Posted on 07/30/2022 5:08:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber

As they push for a global transition to a “green economy,” the World Economic Forum (WEF) is seeking to dramatically reduce both meat consumption, and the number of cars on the road worldwide.

Photo: World Economic Forum (WEF) founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab delivers a speech at the Congress center during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 21, 2020. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

The globalists say steps like eliminating car ownership need to be taken to reduce reliance on critical metals in the coming years.

“This transition from fossil fuels to renewables will need large supplies of critical metals such as cobalt, lithium, nickel, to name a few,” the forum said in a report earlier this month. They added that “shortages of these critical minerals could raise the costs of clean energy technologies,” which include cellphones, electric vehicles, wind turbines and efficient lighting.

The WEF proposed their solutions for lowering the costs of these critical metals:

“More sharing can reduce ownership of idle equipment and thus material usage,” the group argued, pointing to statistics that show the average vehicle in England is driven “just 4% of the time.”

Vehicle sharing initiatives like “Getaround” and “BlueSG” have become increasingly popular around the world and are key in reducing the number of cars and electronics needed globally, the forum argued.

Though it did not address how car sharing could be more effectively utilized in a nation like the U.S. where cars are heavily relied on and public transportation is lacking in both rural and urban communities.

FOX Business: WEF calls to reduce private vehicles by eliminating “ownership”

pic.twitter.com/uWW8ifYUBe

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 29, 2022

The WEF has been advocating for a massive reduction of motor vehicles for years. In December of 2016, the forum set as a goal for “the future of transport,” a 90 percent decrease of vehicles on the road. “More than a million people are killed in motor vehicle accidents each year, and many more are threatened by transportation’s contribution to global warming,” the forum said.

Imagine instead a world where fleets of autonomous vehicles that are electric and shared (FAVES) slash the number of vehicles on the road by as much as 90%. Hailing and paying for a ride or delivery is as easy as tapping a smart phone app. Car loans and insurance payments shrink or disappear because renting a vehicle when it would otherwise sit idle (or feeding electricity back to the electric grid) more than pays for it.

Perhaps best of all, imagine wider, less congested streets with more room for pedestrians and bicycles, clean air, much less global warming, shorter commutes, and even “crowd-funded” fleets of vehicles whose routing and pricing software is tuned to minimize energy use or provide low-cost transportation to underserved regions.

The WEF also advocates that people stop consuming meat and instead eat insects, algae, lentils, fonio, okra, moringa, spinach, mushrooms, and cactuses to lower their “carbon footprints.”

This incredible computer is powered by algae.

Learn more about the power of the plant: https://t.co/NkwvAXCpOR pic.twitter.com/aPWaDpVOHL

— World Economic Forum (@wef) May 30, 2022

Let Them Eat BUGS:

In the Great Starvation Reset: "You'll eat insects and be happy"

UN/WEF actor @tanya_plibersek's device to achieve this is the Juukan Hoax, and made-up aboriginal woke mythology delivered as science pic.twitter.com/IwiYad93MU

— Josephine Cashman (@Josieamycashman) July 23, 2022

“Most of us know that vegetarian options are better for our health and the planet, and now scientists are studying how to convince us to make more sustainable choices,” WEF senior writer Simon Torkington wrote in an article in March about how to convince people to eat less meat.

Torkington cited a study by the World Resources Institute (WRI) which found that “displaying thoughtfully framed environmental messages on restaurant menus can significantly increase customers’ uptake of lower carbon, plant-rich dishes.”

Researchers asked 6,000 meat-eaters to choose options from an online menu, using former Obama official Cass Suntein’s infamous “nudge theory” to encourage one group to consider non-meat menu selections.

Participants in the control group got a normal menu, while others were offered prompts that asked them to consider eating less meat. These subtle interventions are derived from a branch of behavioural science known as “nudge theory.” At its core is the idea that positive reinforcement influences decision making.

One method “nudge theory” adherents apparently use to persuade people is to lie to them about what their peers think.

“90 percent of Americans are making the change to eat less meat. Join this growing movement and choose plant-based dishes that have less impact on the climate and are kinder to the planet,” one of the “nudges” said.

The results from the study reportedly showed “a dramatic rise in the selection of non-meat options by those who were nudged to make healthier and more sustainable choices.”

It remains to be seen whether most Americans can be talked into adding beetles and grasshoppers to their diets to save the planet.


TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food; Society
KEYWORDS: agriculture; automotive; communism; dietandcuisine; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; food; gardening; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; supply
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1 posted on 07/30/2022 5:08:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I wonder how Klaus Schwab likes his grasshoppers prepared.


2 posted on 07/30/2022 5:08:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

If I saw the elite buying into this and not flying in private jets, not living in multiple mansions, etc., I might would go along with this. But this is all for us, not them.


3 posted on 07/30/2022 5:11:35 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: MtnClimber

Just say no. Hunt the plutocrats down and kill them if they try.


4 posted on 07/30/2022 5:11:59 AM 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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5 posted on 07/30/2022 5:12:12 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: MtnClimber

still a few bugs in the system


6 posted on 07/30/2022 5:13:19 AM PDT by xp38
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To: The_Media_never_lie

7 posted on 07/30/2022 5:14:07 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: MtnClimber

How about we increase car ownership to 95% and eat the WEF?


8 posted on 07/30/2022 5:14:24 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: MtnClimber

One problem with their wishful thinking is they don’t realize how far Americans will go to live some semblance of the standard of living from the “beforetimes” (in terms of owning things like cars); IMHO it plays a key role in our decades of negative birthrates. This plays right into their hands as well; people who remember better living conditions voluntarily contracepting themselves into extinction. Their foreign replacements are much more pliable, and more willing to get onto mass transit alongside our dangerous unassimilated underclass.


9 posted on 07/30/2022 5:14:52 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: MtnClimber

Let’s see the Dims “condemn” this heaping pile of BS

Well, Dims, get on it


10 posted on 07/30/2022 5:14:54 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ( Liberty Valance Time. The point of a gun is the only law the left understands)
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To: MtnClimber

Too many people eating plants & bugs would upset the ecosystem


11 posted on 07/30/2022 5:15:04 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: MtnClimber

“You will own nothing and be happy!”


12 posted on 07/30/2022 5:15:18 AM PDT by deweyfrank (Nobody's Perfect )
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I wonder how Klaus Schwab likes his grasshoppers prepared.

Shove them down his throat.

13 posted on 07/30/2022 5:17:27 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: MtnClimber

The WEF also advocates that people stop consuming meat and instead eat insects, algae, lentils, fonio, okra, moringa, spinach, mushrooms, and cactuses to lower their “carbon footprints.”

Meanwhile, globalist elite, like the execrable Schwab, will have their private jets, mansions, and their wagyu beef.


14 posted on 07/30/2022 5:17:45 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: MtnClimber

Just scrape the bugs off the windshield - easy pickins /s


15 posted on 07/30/2022 5:17:52 AM PDT by P.O.E.
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To: MtnClimber

Don’t they also want to reduce the earth’s population, by about 90%?


16 posted on 07/30/2022 5:22:05 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: MtnClimber

The World Economic Forum has effectively said, to the world’s underclasses, “Eat sh*t and DIE, motherf***ers!”

There is a strong streak of nihilism in this attitude. Like they thought there were too many people already populating the earth, and must be curbed by all means necessary.

Capitalism has been labeled the object of scorn and hatred, and must be abolished in all its forms, through criminalization of any tendencies of restoring it anywhere.


17 posted on 07/30/2022 5:22:11 AM PDT by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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To: Travis McGee

Or just remain within seven mikes of home.


18 posted on 07/30/2022 5:24:39 AM PDT by jmcenanly (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
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That should be miles.


19 posted on 07/30/2022 5:25:10 AM PDT by jmcenanly (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
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To: MtnClimber

What we have here is another evil POS german that wants to take over and rule the world.
This POS german needs to end up just like the last POS german that tried this.


20 posted on 07/30/2022 5:26:18 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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