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”
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— 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.
This is their true intent. The folly of the EVs for all is just that. They have automakers all focused on EV’s now with no grid good enough to power them.
I am certain they know that because electric use in powering all those EVs can only happen with fossil fuels or nuke power. The idea has always been that people will no longer have their own cars.
The idea to take you out of having a personal vehicle will happen when all the old gas powered cars aren’t replaced with gas powered cars and you have nothing to replace it with but a golf cart or riding public transportation..
Not long ago (what’s 10 years?) I was called a lunatic by several FReepers.
How do you like your crow served?
Alex Jones was right.
Hitler was actually Austrian, which means he spoke a different language than Germans.
/s
They are aware and that is why our own government is working hard to have everyone who disagrees with them declared criminals.
With a side of extra thick medium rare kobi tenderloin, lobster tail, And shark fin soup no doubt
Who the HELL elected Klaus Schwab to run the world? I don’t remember seeing anything in the USA constitution that cedes American sovereignty to the WEF. It’s so infuriating. This has got to stop. First thing that Trump (authorized by the American people) must do in 2024 is disassemble the WEF, along with Schwab still in the building. /spit
Way past time to start “nudging” the WEF. Like a swift kick to the groin.
“..Hitler was actually Austrian, which means he spoke a different language than Germans. /s..”
Same demon, just a different face.
Lol. Not sure but that- they are so full of crap that they might. NOt taste good
What’s scary is the number of ignorant people in the USA.
Interesting thoughts. I agree. I also think that many of the young people have been indoctrinated and take for granted the quality of life that was worked so hard for before them. They don’t know yet what they will be missing.
This bunch will do as they are told.
“ Too many people eating plants & bugs would upset the ecosystem.”
If blue cities want to do this, great. Let them be the model for the rest of us. While they are at it, they can also go all alternative energy to prove the concept of going green actually lowers carbon.
I wonder how he got to Davos
Mule train?
Covered wagon?
Bicycle
Reducing population is the solution . . . starting with the elites who buy in to this crap Off yourself, Klaus, do the world you allegedly care about a favor
And they have a global stage on which to display it.
“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.”
= = =
Then the average vehicle should last a long time.
Start sharing it and it will wear our much quicker, and probably not able to be replaced.
INSANITY.................
They claim they want the 90% reduction but are unwilling to go first. That’s a clear sign their suggestion is not truly about saving the planet. It’s about reducing the human herd to a controllable size.
For the kids these day who will never know the exciting, free, down to earth times we all had growing up, or how much toil and good sweat it took to get there, it’s “ignorance is bliss” for them. They can’t comprehend America as it was. How great it was. How fun it was. I really feel sorry for them. They think that rechargeable thing in the palm of their hands Is god and their ticket to immortality. If the grid and Net ever went down we would see kids walking around like zombies, totally lost with no life skills whatsoever.
New meaning to “roadkill.”
Yes it is!! Every time I see someone post that server shortage or product shortage is ‘because of Covid’ ( ie as an excuse and to let it go) I want to scream
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