https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21663/war-on-city-dwellers
The ostensible goal of the climate change project is to get to “net zero” carbon emissions by 2050. To do that, global leaders, led by the WEF and the UN, are apparently planning to radically transform the lives of everyone on the planet except their own.
Their plan, officially launched as the UN “Agenda 21” in 1992, during the UN’s Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and now renamed “Agenda 2030,” — still under the pretext of saving the planet — sets in motion initiatives aimed at controlling every detail of people’s lives.
“On the surface, these 15-minute neigbourhoods might sound pleasant and convenient. But there is a coercive edge. The council plans to cut car use and traffic congestion by placing strict rules on car journeys. Under the new proposals, if any of Oxford’s 150,000 residents drives outside of their designated district more than 100 days a year, he or she could be fined £70,” according to the UK website Spiked. Furious residents went out to protest the measures — to no avail.
Popular demand, democratic inclusion and the free market play no role whatsoever. It reminds one of China — which is no coincidence. The idea embedded within the concept of the 15-minute city is not a new one – it has been practiced in Communist China since 1949. Tracking people’s mobility is – and remains – a way for self-appointed “elites” to efficiently control what they seem to regard as the “great unwashed (and incapable of making important decisions) masses.”
“The means of control [in China] have greatly evolved [into unparalleled surveillance]…. No one pays with money anymore: over there, they pay with WeChat or Alipay, through their phone, which is very easily to control…. The Party’s goal of controlling people hasn’t changed, it’s been updated.” — Jean-Philippe Béja, Emeritus Senior Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research and the Center for International Studies and Research at Sciences-Po, forumviesmobiles.org, November 13, 2019.
China…is using biometric scanners as checkpoints, meaning that neighborhoods can turn into prisons by only being accessible through facial scans. If the social credit score is too low, you may not be able to enter or leave. China increasingly… dependent on biometric scans…. Updates… the movements of its citizens, so that it knows where they are at all times. Similarly, the “City Brain” knows what they buy – cash is no longer used – when they take public transport and so on. Anonymity and the right to privacy has been completely abolished.
[A]dding the magic words “carbon neutrality” keeps assuring many Westerners that they are saving the planet. So they keep on buying cheap China’s goods and enriching China’s military — enabling it to replace the United States even faster as the world’s leading superpower and at last to fulfill Chinese President Xi Jinping’s dream of finally ruling the planet.
Despite President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and UN executives and bureaucrats doubled down this year at the poorly attended WEF gathering in Davos — could world leaders possibly be starting to catch on? — and proclaimed that nothing can stop their radical transformation of the world in the name of “climate change.”
“We are already collaborating at a scale where no one can stop; not one country, not one leader making a decision, because it’s just the right thing to do globally,” announced Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All.
