Climate Lockdowns Coming to a City Near You?(Moron[sic] a previous report)

townhall.com ^ | 12/17/2022 | Calvin Beisner

[rktman]

Recently a claim has gone viral about a decision by the Oxfordshire, England county council to divide the city into sectors that can be traversed by walking in 15 minutes or less, and then restrict residents’ travel from one sector to others to no more than 100 days a year—except by special permit available by application and at a price.

The actual facts of the plan are, frankly, difficult to ascertain. The council has placed a formal document about it online. The document is nearly impenetrable. No wonder reports are highly conflicting—and, I’m pleased to say, generally exaggerated.

There are in fact some problems with the plan, but some reports misrepresent it. The website Joannenova.com.au, generally a reliable site about climate-change-related science, ran a piece headlined “Climate lockdowns coming? You will be tracked in your suburb and happy about it.” WattsUpWithThat.com, another site that runs lots of reliable information about climate science, ran a piece by Eric Worrall quoting Nova’s report at length. Those sources said the plan would “lock residents into one of six zones to ‘save the planet’ from global warming,” adding that this “latest stage in the ‘15 minute city’ agenda” would “place electronic gates on key roads in and out of the city, confining residents to their own neighborhoods.” Residents would “need permission from the Council” for more travel within the city.

Now, there really is such a thing as a “15-minute city” concept. Wikipedia describes it as “a residential urban concept” linked with the “new Urbanism” of the 1980s” aimed at making it so “most daily necessities can be accomplished by either walking or cycling from residents’ homes.

[rktman]

Town council climmunists at it again in one form or another. Suburban life? Pfffttttt! Buh bye!

[deport]

A Christmas Donation would be nice

[Kaiser8408a]

The left has gone totally insane.

[rktman]

Sheep, uh, citizens most effected.

[Signalman]

The majority of American sheeple will comply...just as they did in the past few years with the masks and the lockdowns.

[Leaning Right]

I think the Oxfordshire council should purchase some WW II German helmets for its staff.
That would be cool.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Snake sez "Yeah, that'll work. Try it!"

[sauropod]

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[butlerweave]

Australia will do it if there’s anyone still alive

[ChildOfThe60s]

Sadly, you are correct on that

[Alvin Diogenes]

The actual facts of the plan are, frankly, difficult to ascertain. The council has placed a formal document about it online. The document is nearly impenetrable.

"Difficult to ascertain"? "Impenetrable"? On the contrary, it's quite clear. Read it yourself at: https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/residents/roads-and-transport/connecting-oxfordshire/traffic-filters

The initial plan is that residents will be permitted to drive directly to other neighborhoods at most 100 times per year.

If somebody wants to drive to other neighborhoods more than 100 times, they could leave the city center entirely and drive around but that would be inconveniently long. (You're out of luck if, say, your grandchildren live in a different official neighborhood. The inconvenience is the point.)

And that's only the initial plan. They'll be keeping track, and we know that regulations almost always get more restrictive as time passes.

All this is happening at the home of Oxford University.

[EEGator]

I was surprised how many did. Really brought my faith in humanity down multiple pegs.

[Twotone]

Are people really going to put up with this nonsense?!

[joshua c]

no worries

as long as you have a high credit score

you will get extra benefits

like being able to take a vacation

snitching on a neighbor/coworker is great for boosting that score

[rktman]

😂👍

[rktman]

What my thought on the original article.

[Alvin Diogenes]

My thought was, “You will eat bugs, and you will be happy.”

[rktman]

Yummmm! But with that hot yellow mustard you get with spring rolls. 😁👍

[cgbg]

We have a major climate crisis—the leftist hot air is destroying the planet!

[Organic Panic]

It’s not insanity. It is blind loyalty to Marxism camouflaged with lies.