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‘In Harmony With Nature’: Davos Speaker Touts Cities Where People Don’t Own Cars, Have A ‘Sustainable Lifestyle’
dailycaller.com ^
| 1/16/2023 2109 hrs est
| Harold Hutchinson
Posted on 01/17/2023 8:24:30 AM PST by rktman
A speaker at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, promoted the idea of cities where people could live “in harmony with nature” and not own cars Monday.
“What’s important is for policies to change the rules of the game, so sustainability becomes [the] easier choice, not just for the people, but also for the companies,” Bastien Girod of the Swiss National Council, the lower house of Switzerland’s legislature, said during the event.
“In Zurich, we have a lot of districts where you don’t actually need a car, because all the activities, school, buying something, everything you can do in walking distance, and by doing that people don’t buy a car,” Girod continued, noting that they had created an environment where people didn’t need cars, saying they made a “sustainable lifestyle, a lifestyle in harmony with nature is the easiest way to go.”
Girod also praised President Joe Biden for proposing that the United States government only do business with companies that commit to the Paris Agreement.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 15minutecity; davos
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Hmmmm! 15 minute cities anyone? You will love the 400 sq/ft abode you've been provided by the govt. All you need is within 15 minutes walking. While your out, see that the Citation is fueled up.
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posted on
01/17/2023 8:24:30 AM PST
by
rktman
To: rktman
To: rktman
Rebirth of Nazism using wealth instead of bombs.
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posted on
01/17/2023 8:26:16 AM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
To: gov_bean_ counter
Did they have to do ferry flights out of Davos in order to find parking for all the private jets again?
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posted on
01/17/2023 8:27:20 AM PST
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
To: rktman
I bet Zurich does not have a whole lot of third world criminals roaming their streets.
Details, details....
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posted on
01/17/2023 8:27:41 AM PST
by
cgbg
(Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
To: rktman
Detroit?..........................
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posted on
01/17/2023 8:28:35 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: rktman
...so sustainability becomes [the] easier choiceTo what end? So we can "sustainably" support a global population of 15 billion? 30 billion? 100 billion?
"Sustainability" simply means that the earth can carry more people which is exactly what these people DO NOT WANT. It seems like half of the ultra-rich liberals yammer endlessly about depopulation while the other half yammer endlessly about "sustainability."
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posted on
01/17/2023 8:28:36 AM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
To: rktman
Does Girod own a car/cars with driver ?
To: rktman
How about these b^st^rds give up their limos and private jets and go to conferences on pogo sticks, and then propose their have nothing own nothing paradise.
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posted on
01/17/2023 8:28:48 AM PST
by
Right Wing Vegan
(Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
To: rktman
Did he write his speech on a private jet?
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posted on
01/17/2023 8:29:08 AM PST
by
ArcadeQuarters
(You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
To: gov_bean_ counter
Rebirth of Nazism using wealth instead of bombs. Actually the Nazis did advocate personal transportation, in the form of the "Peoples Car" (Volkswagen)
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posted on
01/17/2023 8:29:20 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: rktman
The lie of the noble savage is one of the most pernicious in history and that is what this is.
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posted on
01/17/2023 8:29:26 AM PST
by
Fai Mao
(Stop feeding the beast, and steal its food!)
To: rktman
Utopia
Been tried
Didn’t work
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posted on
01/17/2023 8:29:27 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: rktman
“In Zurich, we have a lot of districts where you don’t actually need a car, because all the activities, school, buying something, everything you can do in walking distance, and by doing that people don’t buy a car,” Girod continued" Does that include escaping a tyrannical oppressive government?
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posted on
01/17/2023 8:29:43 AM PST
by
rockrr
( Everything is different now...)
To: rktman
This sounds a lot like the supposedly perfect cities in Looking Backward, the 1888 socialist manifesto describing the supposedly perfect world of 2000, written by Edward Bellamy, the cousin of the author of the Pledge of Allegiance, Francis Bellamy.
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posted on
01/17/2023 8:30:14 AM PST
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: rktman
How do the elderly get around in those cities? Or do they just get rid of them?
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posted on
01/17/2023 8:30:27 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
To: butlerweave
In the 50’s there were a number of novels inspired by 1984 and the reality of life in the Soviet Union that created such cramped dystopias where the state could track everybody as the story backdrop. Never expected to see life in the ant hill glorified in a non-communist country.
To: rktman
If only we lived in a world where Private Jet travel wasn’t necessary to visit foreign countries and formulate plans to overthrow governments and people worldwide...
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posted on
01/17/2023 8:32:55 AM PST
by
eyeamok
(founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
To: dfwgator
They ordered and made payment for the Peoples Car but never received one because of the War
To: rktman
Sounds like Escape from New York. Snake Plissken, one of the best characters ever.
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