Posted on 11/18/2022 12:34:11 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
A Canadian bank has launched a new credit card that tracks the “carbon footprint” of the account holder.
The launch of the new card makes Canada the first country to track its citizens’ actions to monitor their impact on “climate change.”
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(Excerpt) Read more at slaynews.com ...
I think they know the answer even if they don't say it. The question is who is going ti be the first one to put the bell on the proverbial cat.
If everyone ditches this credit card, then this fails.
turdeaux is really this agenda along fast
Canada really only has a handful of bankc. This isn’t one of them. It is a Credit Union.
When I see “Bank of Montreal (BMO)” or “RBC” pulling this, then we have a problem.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the credit union was put up as a trial balloon, so there isn’t another series of bank runs like what happened during the Trucker Protest.
I’m sure our carbon footprint, will be part of our social credit scores. Chinese style social credit scores will be assigned to us, sooner or later.
It begins. Remember this date, Nov. 18th, and you read it here first (or at least I did).
5 years from now EVERYONE will have their carbon usage tracked...and you best be prepared to pay, BIG TIME, if you exceed your (ever tightening) allocation.
You’ll own nothing(because owning is evil) and be happy
Credit Union , aren’t they communists ?
Imagine that.
from the article in the original post:
In October, Australia’s Commonwealth Bank (CBA) also announced a similar scheme, giving the customer the option to “pay a fee” to offset their carbon footprint.
If your carbon footprint is low enough you qualify for extremely cheap loans.
https://www.commbank.com.au/articles/newsroom/2021/10/CBA-launches-carbon-tracking-feature.html
Commonwealth Bank has announced an Australian banking first by providing personalised carbon footprints for customers based on their spending data in a partnership with fintech start-up CoGo.
The first phase of the partnership will allow a select group of retail customers to view their carbon footprint via the CommBank app and offset their previous month’s transactions by purchasing carbon credits. This new feature will be available to all retail customers next year.
As the relationship with CoGo deepens, this will expand to include select small business customers and we expect that customers will soon be able to see a breakdown of their emissions by month and category, and eventually at an individual transaction level.
Until we are all forced to central bank digital currencies.
I wonder why they might be doing this!
Could they be preparing the way for a compulsory “donation” taken directly from your checking account?
Remember Cyprus.
Vancity Credit Union is a co-operative, and it embraces very socialist ideas, so a credit card that tracks carbon usage would be right up their alley.
The True-dolt gubmint is already developing ‘digital currency’. So, we’ll be prevented from ‘using’ too much carbon.
The ‘nanny state’ is quickly becoming the dictator state.
I love carbon.
Will this card give me more?
Right on time I’d say 🙄
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