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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

If you weren't already confident that the World Economic Forum (WEF) is one of the engines of the devil, this editorial from their website should reassure you. It is nothing more than a mass of post-modern doublespeak, using the current mania for the devolution of Man and his works, otherwise known as "Climate Change," as the catalyst for the elites' goal of a dystopian world of densely packed cities populated by drones whose every action is controlled, tracked, and critiqued by the regulatory state.

‘My Carbon’: An approach for inclusive and sustainable cities

Inclusivity of citizens is becoming the most important element of success or failure in the journey towards sustainability. Community-led initiatives can make a significant contribution towards sustainability, increase resilience and social cohesion. There have been numerous examples of personal carbon allowance programs in discussions for the last two decades, however they had limited success due to a lack of social acceptance, political resistance, and a lack of awareness and fair mechanism for tracking “My Carbon” emissions.

There have been significant developments in last five to seven years on social, environment and technology fronts that could help realise “My Carbon” initiatives for shaping the future towards smart and sustainable cities.

Specifically, to mention three developments in this context:

The first one is a doozy!

1. COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility -- A huge number of unimaginable restrictions for public health were adopted by billions of citizens across the world. There were numerous examples globally of maintaining social distancing, wearing masks, mass vaccinations and acceptance of contact-tracing applications for public health, which demonstrated the core of individual social responsibility.

Wow! This sociopath is actually pleased with the horrid economy and soul-crushing government power grabs that damaged the entire world, all in the name of protecting us from a ubiquitous virus with a 99.4% survival rate. But it's the control and the desensitization to government orders that gets him hard.

2. Fourth Industrial Revolution technology breakthroughs -- Advances in emerging technologies like AI, blockchain and digitization can enable tracking personal carbon emissions, raise awareness and also provide individual advisories on lower carbon and ethical choices for consumption of product and services. The World Economic Forum's Scale 360 initiative demonstrates the use of fourth industrial revolution technologies across the whole life cycle of products and services.

That's fascist gobbledygook for intrusive technology that will track your every move, and allow government to make you a non-person if you don't play along with their game.

3. Raised awareness and ownership for nature and environment – In the last few years, there is an increased awareness and public concern on climate change and specially among youth. The UNDP’s “Peoples’ Climate Vote” reflects that over 64% of people believe climate change is a global emergency. A new Pew Research Center survey in 17 advanced economies found widespread concern about the personal impact of global climate change: 80% of citizens say they are willing to change how they live and work to combat the effects of climate change. Young adults, who have been at the forefront of some of the most prominent climate change protests in recent years, are more concerned than their older counterparts about the personal impact of a warming planet in many public surveys.

More Newspeak...but what it means is that their lies about Global Warming^TM are working, and the fear of natural cycles that they have stoked for decades will allow them to use the excuse of some mythical planet-killing catastrophe to drive people into overcrowded cities, decrease their standard of living by decreasing their energy use, and make them more compliant by being able to control them more easily.

Here are the facts: energy use is linked to increased standards of living: starting with the processing of the raw materials that drive our modern world, such as ore into steel, crude oil into fertilizers, and 1,000s of other products. The ability to transmit huge amounts of energy cheaply and safely has revolutionized our societies...illumination and cooking, air conditioning, public and private transport...the list goes on and on. All of it dependent on a rational mix of energy sources, but utterly dependent on petroleum as the core energy. Sure, nuclear and hydroelectric (as long as they don't dam my favorite rivers!) are wonderful, and shifting toward nuclear for electricity in many places is a rational, market-driven change. But until there is a technological revolution in energy storage, electricity is not the answer for transport and many other energy uses.

Buried in all of the buzz-word nonsense and catchphrases is the dirty little secret of the globalists; they want us to be their slaves, and the best way to achieve that is to make us profoundly dependent on them for everything. They will dole out monetary credits and energy tokens and housing vouchers to those who adhere to their principles of zero-emissions, carbon-neutral, limited consumption.

Well, at least for us...they will be living as always: jetting around, eating well, living extravagantly, and ruling us with the tools we provided them.