'Climate Change' and the coming 'Climate Lockdown'

[DarthOne]

The 15-Minute Prisons

• 15 minute neighbourhood introduced in Bath - Stan Voice of Wales - Twitter
• All over the UK - AI
• Civil Disobedience - Stan Voice of Wales
• Josh also commented on this

• It's part of the climate agenda

• The WEF's war on cars

• It's an idea the WEF and everyone involved has been workshopping for a while - The World Economic Forum
• Natural England unveils new Green Infrastructure Framework - .gov
• Bath locals say new traffic management plans would be 'commercial suicide' - Somerset Live
• Torquay '15 Minute Cities' protesters say freedom is at risk - Devon Live
• The madness of the '15-minute city' - Spiked
• The Myth of the 15-Minute City - Freedom For Drivers Foundation

Exactly, this push to eliminate cars and promote public transit is so that they can tell you where and when you will go where you want

 

[Cherico]

Being a control freak who has to dominate everyone elses life makes people hate you.

 

[mrttao]

war on cars

In china if you have low social credit, they ban you from public transport. which is ruinous.

So long as westerners own cars, they cannot do that to them. which is why it is of the utmost importance to them to ban cars. So that you would be forced to public transit, which they could control every single move you make

 

[Captain X]

 

[DarthOne]

15-minute cities and personal consumption reduction targets

15-minute cities and personal consumption reduction targets

While not discussed on mainstream news, 15-minute cities have become a major discussion point and concern within alternative media. What is a 15-minute city? ‘The climate crisis and global COVID-19 pandemic combined to accelerate consideration and implementation

theodoreatkinson.substack.com

While not discussed on mainstream news, 15-minute cities have become a major discussion point and concern within alternative media.

What is a 15-minute city?

'The climate crisis and global COVID-19 pandemic combined to accelerate consideration and implementation of the 15-minute city.
In July 2020, the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group published a framework for cities to "build back better" using the 15-minute concept.'
— 15-minute city, Wikipedia
Please see my previous article regarding the origin of 15-minute cities and their overarching Totalitarian philosophy.

Within the Agenda 2030 framework, there is an initiative to reduce personal consumption through utilitarian targets.

• Goal 12.
  Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.

Organizations within the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group have specified possible consumption reduction targets in detailed reports.

The research sets out science-based targets for cities for GHG emissions reduction that are consistent with the 2015 Paris Agreement ambitions, and identifies key previously untapped opportunities for cities to address the impact of urban consumption whilst delivering multiple other benefits for their citizens. It also maps how urban stakeholders can work together to deliver these changes.

The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5C World has been co-created and co-delivered by C40, Arup and University of Leeds with funding from Arup, University of Leeds and Citi Foundation.
— The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World
This is a link to their report.

Below is a summary of "ambitious" 2030 targets from the report for those living in these so-called futuristic 15-minute cities.

Section 6.3 Buildings and infrastructure

Table 2 Consumption interventions for buildings and infrastructure and associated targets.

Column Ambitious Target in 2030:

1. Reduction in steel and cement use of 35% and 56% respectively.
2. 20% reduction in demand for new buildings.
3. 90% of residential and 70% of commercial are timber buildings.
4. 61% of cement replaced with low-carbon alternatives.
5. 22% reduction in virgin metal and petrochemical-based material.

Section 6.4 Food

Table 3 Consumption interventions for food and associated targets.

Column Ambitious Target in 2030:

1. 0 kg meat consumption.
2. 0 kg dairy consumption (milk or derivative equivalent) per person per year.
3. 2,500 cal per person per day.
4. 0% household food waste.
5. 75% reduction in supply chain food waste.

Section 6.5 Clothing and textiles

Table 4 Consumption interventions for clothing and textiles and associated targets.

Column Ambitious Target in 2030:

1. 3 new clothing items per person per year.
2. 75% reduction in supply chain waste.

Section 6.6 Private transport

Table 5 Consumption interventions for private transport and associated targets.

Column Ambitious Target in 2030:

1. 0 private vehicles.
2. 50-year lifetime for body of vehicle (shell & interior).
3. 50% reduction in use of metal and plastic materials.

Section 6.7 Aviation

Table 6 Consumption interventions for aviation and associated targets.

Column Ambitious Target in 2030:

1. 1 short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every 3 years per person.
2. 100% sustainable aviation fuel adopted (or other equivalent low carbon technology or fuel).

Section 6.8 Electronics and household appliances

Table 7 Consumption intervention for electronics and household appliances and associated target.

Column Ambitious Target in 2030:

1. 7-year optimum lifetime of laptops and similar electronic devices.

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Who is implementing this?

Section 8 Delivery of consumption interventions

1. City government.
2. Urban residents.
3. Business.
4. Civil society groups.
5. National government.

Cities can work together with individuals, business and other levels of government to achieve dietary change.​

Concluding remarks

This framework treats you like livestock that must be measurably monitored and controlled. Does this look like a world you or your descendants should live in?

• 0 kg meat consumption.
• 0 private vehicles.
• 3 new clothing items per person per year.
• 1 short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every 3 years per person.

These centralized top-down systems do not work. It is high-tech communism that will produce the opposite of each stated goal.

You will have:

1. Poor building and crumbling infrastructure.
2. Inadequate low nutrition food.
3. No private transportation or ability to freely move.
4. Old worn out clothing.
5. Highly restricted access to aviation.
6. Approved and controlled electronic surveillance devices.

No one is coming to save us.

In Canada there is an existing Smart Cities Challenge with a large list of applicants. These are evaluation phases — this is closer to home than you may think.

These are their plans.
What are yours?

15-minute cities and what you should know, now!

15-minute cities and what you should know, now!

What is a 15-minute city? A 15-minute city is described as a city re-organized into distinct commutable districts. A district is a geographical region where all necessary amenities are available within 15 minutes of walking, biking or public transit to minimize travel.

theodoreatkinson.substack.com

What is a 15-minute city?

A 15-minute city is described as a city re-organized into distinct commutable districts. A district is a geographical region where all necessary amenities are available within 15 minutes of walking, biking or public transit to minimize travel.

Is that it?

No.

'The climate crisis and global COVID-19 pandemic combined to accelerate consideration and implementation of the 15-minute city.
In July 2020, the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group published a framework for cities to "build back better" using the 15-minute concept.'
— 15-minute city, Wikipedia
The purpose of a 15-minute city is related to the ability to provide immediate response to one or more crises. This implies the city is equipped with policy and tools that can monitor and control specific aspects of infrastructure and civil activity.

Where did this idea come from?

United Nations and Agenda 2030

15-minute cities — as well as other initiatives — are an implementation satisfying a high-level framework proposed by the United Nations (UN).

This framework is called Agenda 2030.

Agenda 2030 is a plan of action containing 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and 169 targets. It is a declaration by UN members to radically transform economic, social and environmental policy under a unified idealized vision.

The goals are broad and long-term, which address supposed existential threats to UN members, e.g., climate change, pandemics, gender equity, social injustice etc.

It is a vision that prescribes actions to maximize happiness and well-being.

This is a form of Top Down Management, where decisions are centrally commanded from a small leadership team. There is no opportunity to question, discuss or provide feedback from decisions or visions delegated from the top.

Philosophy

Utilitarianism is an ethical philosophy that prescribes actions to maximize happiness and well-being for all affected individuals. The primary goal of this philosophy is to maximize utility, which creates a supplementary objective to quantify, compare and measure happiness or well-being.

Utility is described as:

"That property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness ... [or] to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness to the party whose interest is considered."
— Jeremy Bentham
Under a utilitarian rule, your individual value is determined by a computed score produced by a scheme or algorithm.

Such scheme could be derived from models based on:

1. Economics.
2. Social distributive fairness.
3. Environment.

See Chapter 3: Social, Economic, and Ethical Concepts and Methods from Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for model specifics.
[Referred hereon as IPCCWG3].

Agenda 2030 and Goal 9/11

The 15-minute city solution primarily falls under the scope of:

1. Goal 9.
   Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
2. Goal 11.
   Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

15-minute cities can also satisfy secondary goals through policy.

For example:

1. Goal 6.
   Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
2. Goal 10.
   Reduce inequality within and among countries.
3. Goal 12.
   Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.

IPCCWG3 provides a high level Summary for Policymakers and a Technical Summary containing aggregate data and models — subsequent chapters provide further detail. In relation to Goals 9/11, section SPM.4.2.5 provides policy rationale based on climate crisis risks, which a 15-minute city would satisfy.

SPM.4.2.5 — Human settlements, infrastructure and spatial planning:

1. Urbanization is a global trend and is associated with increases in income, and higher urban incomes are correlated with higher consumption of energy and GHG emissions.
2. The next two decades present a window of opportunity for mitigation in urban areas, as a large portion of the world's urban areas will be developed during this period.
3. Mitigation options in urban areas vary by urbanization trajectories and are expected to be most effective when policy instruments are bundled.
4. The largest mitigation opportunities with respect to human settlements are in rapidly urbanizing areas where urban form and infrastructure are not locked in, but where there are often limited governance, technical, financial, and institutional capacities.
5. Thousands of cities are undertaking climate action plans, but their aggregate impact on urban emissions is uncertain.
6. Successful implementation of urban-scale climate change mitigation strategies can provide co-benefits.

There are various initiatives being evaluated to satisfy these concerns.

2030 District

One such initiative is the 2030 District, which establishes energy, water and emission reduction targets for participant member cities.

For example, a new building in a 2030 District shall:

1. Reduce energy use by 70% below national average.
2. Reduce water use by 50% below current district average.
3. Reduce CO2 emission by 50% below current district average.

Existing buildings and infrastructure have similar targets.

SMART City

"A smart city is a technologically modern urban area that uses different types of electronic methods and sensors to collect specific data.
Information gained from that data is used to manage assets, resources and services efficiently; in return, that data is used to improve operations across the city.
This includes data collected from citizens, devices, buildings and assets that is processed and analyzed to monitor and manage traffic and transportation systems, power plants, utilities, water supply networks, waste, criminal investigations, information systems, schools, libraries, hospitals, and other community services."
— Smart city, Wikipedia
A SMART city focuses on digital monitoring and control of:

1. Energy production and distribution.
2. Transportation and traffic.
3. Buildings, utilities and amenities.
4. Environmental impact.
5. Productive human activity.

A series of SMART cities already exist with varying levels of technological implementation. Under Agenda 2030, the success of these methods, in relation to goals and targets, are assessed for feasibility of future endeavours.

15-minute city

The 15-minute city was proposed by Carlos Moreno at the COP21 conference in 2015.

It has four principles:

1. Proximity.
   Things must be close.
2. Diversity.
   Land uses must be mixed to provide a wide variety of amenities.
3. Density.
   Must be enough people to support a diversity of businesses in a compact land area.
4. Ubiquity.
   Must be so common they are affordable and available to anyone who wants to live in one.

According to some studies, proposed topological designs would be fractal with well defined and tuned network parameters.

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Sounds great! What's wrong with it?
Utilitarianism is not the only philosophical idea employed by UN decision making.

The UN claims that irreversible climate change will induce food and resource shortages for an exponentially growing population.

This idea originates from Malthusianism, which asserts that since population growth is exponential and other resources are linear, eventually a reduction in the standard of living reaches a critical point causing populations to die off.

This justifies the need for:

1. Preventative population control.
   Reduce fertility rates, e.g., celibacy, chastity, contraception, infanticide, abortion.
2. Positive population control.
   Any circumstance that shortens the human life span.

Neo-Malthusianism is closer to the UN's stated objectives, which advocates for human population planing to ensure resource and environmental integrity.

In IPCCWG3 Chapter 3 under Values and wellbeing, 3.4.7 Valuing population provides the rationale for scoring the utility of human populations.

"Average utilitarianism gives no value to increasing numbers of people. The implicit or explicit goal of a great deal of policy-making is to promote per capita wellbeing (Hardin, 1968).
This is to adopt average utilitarianism. This goal tends to favour anti-natalist policies, aimed at limiting population. It would strongly favour population control as a means of mitigating climate change, and it would not take a collapse of population to be, in itself, a bad thing."
— 3.4.7 Valuing population, IPCCWG3
This is similar to the claim Bill Gates made during a TED talk regarding limiting population growth using:

1. Vaccines.
2. Healthcare.
3. Reproductive services.

"First, we've got population," he said during the talk organized by TED, a non-profit organization devoted to spreading ideas. "The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent. But there, we see an increase of about 1.3."
— Bill Gates, Reuters Fact Check
During the talk, he also stated that reducing the economic standard of living, by targeting consumption and demand, is another method of achieving emission targets. This is in line with IPCCWG3 SPM.4.2.5 item 1.
i.e., Shift advanced populations to lower standards of living.

After reviewing Utilitarian and Malthusian "ethical" scoring of human life,
Do you want to live in a 15-minute city designed under UN Agenda 2030?​

If you value your life, then the answer should be no, because your value is not guaranteed to be consistent with the Agenda 2030 calculated value.

If however you are nihilistic, then 15-minute cities and other initiatives are simply a means to your end, "for the greater good."

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How is this Agenda being sold if the goal is to "limit" and control the population?

Fear!

Why should we trust these people?

Who are they and what gives them the authority to dictate Truth?

Manage "misinformation" and ownership claim on science

Make no mistake.

Totalitarianism is here, arriving in a glittery rainbow package claiming to save humanity from itself by monitoring, controlling and enslaving it.

It has infected our government at every level.

"Though Canada has a relatively small population, it also has a large land mass with most of it located in the northern half of the northern hemisphere. These factors contribute to relatively higher energy and transportation costs.
Climate change is one of the most pressing global challenges humanity faces today. The science is conclusive. It tells us that swift action is needed to reduce greenhouse gases, improve climate resilience and protect our natural environment. "
— Canada and the Sustainable Development Goals, Government of Canada
Canada has a detailed plan to implement the UN Agenda 2030's goals.

"Local governments can advance progress on sustainable communities (SDG 11) through integrated planning, housing, sustainable transport, inclusive urbanization, waste management and inclusive and green public spaces.
Local governments across Canada are not only implementers of the 2030 Agenda, they are also policy makers who deliver direct programs and services to Canadians."
— Towards Canada's 2030 Agenda National Strategy, Government of Canada
Edmonton is planning 15-minute cities through districts and pilot parks.
Don't forget Toronto!

Make no mistake.

Totalitarianism is here, arriving in a glittery rainbow package claiming to save humanity from itself by monitoring, controlling and enslaving it.

It has infected our government at every level.

"Though Canada has a relatively small population, it also has a large land mass with most of it located in the northern half of the northern hemisphere. These factors contribute to relatively higher energy and transportation costs.
Climate change is one of the most pressing global challenges humanity faces today. The science is conclusive. It tells us that swift action is needed to reduce greenhouse gases, improve climate resilience and protect our natural environment. "
— Canada and the Sustainable Development Goals, Government of Canada
Canada has a detailed plan to implement the UN Agenda 2030's goals.

"Local governments can advance progress on sustainable communities (SDG 11) through integrated planning, housing, sustainable transport, inclusive urbanization, waste management and inclusive and green public spaces.
Local governments across Canada are not only implementers of the 2030 Agenda, they are also policy makers who deliver direct programs and services to Canadians."
— Towards Canada's 2030 Agenda National Strategy, Government of Canada
Edmonton is planning 15-minute cities through districts and pilot parks.
Don't forget Toronto!

Just remember. You do not have a choice.
It is happening whether people like it or not.

'Road blocks stopping most motorists from driving through Oxford city centre will divide the city into six "15 minute" neighbourhoods, a county council travel chief has said.
And he insisted the controversial plan would go ahead whether people liked it or not.
People can drive freely around their own neighbourhood and can apply for a permit to drive through the filters, and into other neighbourhoods, for up to 100 days per year. This equates to an average of two days per week.
A maximum of three permits a household will be allowed where there are several adults with cars registered to the address.'
— Traffic filters will divide city into "15 minute" neighbourhoods, Oxford Mail
Take into consideration this agenda with Canada's parallel plans to monitor and control human behaviour through embedded digital social credit systems.

https://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/urban_planning_and_design/district-plans

 

[Scottty]

15-minute cities and personal consumption reduction targets

15-minute cities and personal consumption reduction targets

While not discussed on mainstream news, 15-minute cities have become a major discussion point and concern within alternative media. What is a 15-minute city? ‘The climate crisis and global COVID-19 pandemic combined to accelerate consideration and implementation

theodoreatkinson.substack.com

15-minute cities and what you should know, now!

15-minute cities and what you should know, now!

What is a 15-minute city? A 15-minute city is described as a city re-organized into distinct commutable districts. A district is a geographical region where all necessary amenities are available within 15 minutes of walking, biking or public transit to minimize travel.

theodoreatkinson.substack.com

District Plans | City of Edmonton

I suspect that if I asked about churches and other places of worship they would give me funny look.

 

[LordsFire]

This is giving me yet another case of 'Why are you not implementing this in your neighborhood first?'

 

[Captain X]

 

[Marduk]

Poland currently has a green nutcase ownage event on national news, as the right has noticed the membership of the left-liberal mayor of the capital in one of the rather... unpopular virtue signalling initiatives.

Warsaw joins global climate change scheme

Warsaw will has joined other cities taking part in a pilot programme aiming to stop climate change.

www.thefirstnews.com

Krzysztof Sobolewski, secretary general of Law and Justice, the backbone coalition party, nicknamed the programme "North Korea plus".

"One can say that it is a sort of a 'North Korea plus' programme in which leftist ideologies are heading towards their ideal, meaning North Korea, where the car is a luxury good, or there isn't one at all, clothes are usually second-hand and in limited supply and food is consumed rarely," Sobolewski said.

 

[mrttao]

Should have said he believes in the tooth fairy, it would be less silly

 

[bintananth]

Poland currently has a green nutcase ownage event on national news, as the right has noticed the membership of the left-liberal mayor of the capital in one of the rather... unpopular virtue signalling initiatives.

Warsaw joins global climate change scheme

Warsaw will has joined other cities taking part in a pilot programme aiming to stop climate change.

www.thefirstnews.com

When it comes to an affordable energy source useful for cooking and capable of keeping you warm when it's cold out it's really hard to top the highly-renewable bit of "oh, I just found that laying around in my backyard" called wet firewood that's used to fuel an improvized bonfire which would make any "green environmental activist" apoplectic with "how could you be so polluting?" if they were to stick any polution monitoring device into either the smoke or ashes.

Firewood burning reciprocating single-expansion steam plants which needed a mere 15psi and 250°F steam were obsolete by the late-1800s.

 

[Agent23]

I think Peterson is overhyped, but sometimes he has some excellent takes and does decent interviews, like this one:



Bad behavior among so called scientists, no tolerance to criticism, nothing about magnetic fields, the sun or a dozen other factors and lots of mutually reinforcing bad behavior between so called "scientists", government and media.

Must Watch!

 

[Agent23]

When it comes to an affordable energy source useful for cooking and capable of keeping you warm when it's cold out it's really hard to top the highly-renewable bit of "oh, I just found that laying around in my backyard" called wet firewood that's used to fuel an improvized bonfire which would make any "green environmental activist" apoplectic with "how could you be so polluting?" if they were to stick any polution monitoring device into either the smoke or ashes.

Firewood burning reciprocating single-expansion steam plants which needed a mere 15psi and 250°F steam were obsolete by the late-1800s.

Or the nearby forest that has lots of old, fallen down trees which will either decay or turn into dry kindling for a forest fire, and that might have to be taken out due to disease or because they are blocking the growth of younger trees...

Also, most people do let their firewood dry out after gathering it during the spring/summer/autumn, then use it in the winter, at least where I am from.

Poland currently has a green nutcase ownage event on national news, as the right has noticed the membership of the left-liberal mayor of the capital in one of the rather... unpopular virtue signalling initiatives.

Warsaw joins global climate change scheme

Warsaw will has joined other cities taking part in a pilot programme aiming to stop climate change.

www.thefirstnews.com

Well, you Poles are from the part of Yurup that became famous with throwing dumb politicians out of windows and into dung heaps, time to revive the old traditions.

 

[Typhonis]

Well, you Poles are from the part of Yurup that became famous with throwing dumb politicians out of windows and into dung heaps, time to revive the old traditions.

Why would you ruin a perfectly good dung heap like that? Farmers need those so they can compost them and use em as fertilizer.

 

[Agent23]

Why would you ruin a perfectly good dung heap like that? Farmers need those so they can compost them and use em as fertilizer.

Let politician sink in and choke on the orgs ic fertilizer.
Wait.
Use the 80-200 kg extra organic fertilizer once it is done, ahem, maturing.

Or just feed the corpse to a pig, they will est anything.

 

[ATP]

Let politician sink in and choke on the orgs ic fertilizer.
Wait.
Use the 80-200 kg extra organic fertilizer once it is done, ahem, maturing.

Or just feed the corpse to a pig, they will est anything.

They still could die after eating leftist politicians.

 

[Bear Ribs]

Came across a bit of this old gold.

 

[mrttao]

Came across a bit of this old gold.

This is why carbon sequestering pisses me off.
These idiots are threatening our life in the name of their retarded eco religion and its dogma.
We need CO2. it is far too low.

 

[Marduk]

Greta Thunberg deletes ‘doomsday prediction’ but ‘the internet is forever’

Sky News host Rita Panahi examines a tweet by Greta Thunberg from five years ago who warned “climate change will wipe out all of humanity” over the next five years “unless we stop using fossil fuels”. “Well guess what, the five years are almost up; just three months to go till Armageddon,” Ms...

www.skynews.com.au

Climate apocalypse is officially delayed.
How predictable...

 

[ThatZenoGuy]

In china if you have low social credit, they ban you from public transport. which is ruinous.

So long as westerners own cars, they cannot do that to them. which is why it is of the utmost importance to them to ban cars. So that you would be forced to public transit, which they could control every single move you make

Leftists are under some delusion that 'slippery slope' is a fallacy when recent history has proven it to be quite the opposite. It is a certainty.

"We only want to ban cars, you can use our upgraded public transport for free!"
"Free? We meant cheaply"
"Cheaply? We meant a significant fraction of your salary!"
"What's the matter? It's only a sizable amount of your money...Oh and we are now cracking down on 'hateful' people using the service, they are now no longer allowed"
"And those who vote for parties we don't like are hateful..."