The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5C World - C40 Cities Goals by 2030. This is an incredibly out-of-touch, and terrifying read on the enforced carbon-reduction to counter climate change agenda!
Hunger Games meets 1984 on steroids! Welcome to 15-minute city dystopia. 96 Cities have signed up and are working towards this agenda. It can be stopped, and that is up to us!
I was inspired to write about this when I watched Episode 357 of the highwire this morning, where this topic was discussed.
While the existence of human-influenced and carbon-driven global warming is controversial and countered by many experts, at the same time there is a global movement very aggressively pushing measures that are said to be necessary to counter it.
C40 is a global network of nearly 100 cities which have signed up to and are committed to making changes to counter climate change. Quezon City in Metro Manila, Philippines is a C40 global network member. Paris, London, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Delhi, Seoul, Beijing, Singapore, Hong Kong, Melbourne and Sydney, Auckland, Jakarta, Yokohama, and Hanoi are among the members cities.
The C40 website is interesting, drop-down menu of topics shown below.
The C40 Cities Headline Report sets out how member cities will move towards goals to adopt "sustainability", to ensure global temperatures do not increase by more than 1.5 degrees, and to transition to a zero-carbon world.
The main focus is on limiting urban consumption and shifting to low-impact consumption. Measures detailed include ambitious reduced consumption targets for construction, food, textile and fabrics, transportation, aviation, and electronics, targeted to be met by 2030. C40 cities will lead the way for the world!
A terrifying read of the planned prison state which the authors state MUST be implemented globally within 10 years! 1984 on steroids meets hunger games! Whoever conceived and wrote these objectives must not be living in the real world! I cannot believe that serious funding was appropriated for this!
Please note that while I do not agree that climate change is an issue, I know we have pollution, and land misuse and degradation problems that need urgent redress. While I believe that the focus on climate change is WEF corpocracy-driven and is diverting attention from far more pressing issues, I am very much in favor of rational measures to reduce overconsumption and waste, to prevent, manage, and remediate pollution, to develop self-sustainable communities, to expand regenerative farming, etc.
I am very concerned with the non-negotiable, globalist, anti-individual, control aspect of these climate change, population control, anti-human agendas, thus I share this information. Better read it to understand and be prepared to counter, with eyes wide open, what might be coming very quickly down the line if we do not act!
To whet your appetite, the following tables extracted from the document which you can download, set out the goals for C40 member cities, and ultimately everyone.
Following are the specific objectives, progressive and ambitious targets for 2030.
Construction-Related Consumption
C40 cities are aiming at massive reductions in steel and cement use and are targeting that 90% of residential and 70% of commercial buildings will be timber buildings. I hope they are referring to new buildings only, or do they aim to replace existing buildings? No more high-rise buildings or apartments? Where will they get so many trees?
The structural strength is limited, and the lifespan of timber buildings are far shorter than that of concrete buildings. How will this work in member cities, some of which are among the most congested cities in the world?
Food Consumption and Food Waste
They are targeting your food consumption, not just what you eat, but how much you are allowed to eat. Table 3 spells out the goals. All people will be vegan! No more meat, no more dairy. Permitted calories are to be limited to 2,500 a day, and there will be no more food waste.
These goals are very problematic! Will they apply to children, to athletes and laborers, during pregnancy, or illness? Will overweight people be investigated or even fined on the presumption they are exceeding their food allowances? Black-market food smuggling, anyone?
Meat and dairy are among the most nutrient dense foods. Meat is the most readily available protein source and is a critical source of B12. Vegan diets need to be supplemented for B12 and planned carefully to achieve nutrient and protein adequacy. These goals, if enforced, will almost certainly guarantee malnutrition for children and pregnant women (stunting growth and development); people with lower socio-economic status will be most affected.
Clothing and Textile Consumption
Table 4 sets out textile targets: 3 new items of clothing / person a year.
This year you may get 3 new pairs of socks! Next year you may apply to use your allowance for 3 pieces of undies. Maybe 1 pair of jeans the following year, if your panties and undies had not worn out needing replacement from your allowance of 3 items! Hardly practical targets!
Dressing for fashion and the fashion industry may become a thing of the past. I wonder what happens for babies and growing children? I guess that second-hand clothes market, Ukay-ukay1, would thrive?
Transportation Consumption
Table 5 shows the aim for no more private vehicle ownership. I guess vehicles become irrelevant for residents caged in their 15-minute cities. A 50-year lifetime for vehicles?
Aviation Consumption
No more long-distance air travel? Not more than one short-haul flight / person every 3 years.
Electronics Consumption
An extended lifespan for electronics and appliances is proposed, with a 7-year target for laptops and similar gadgets. Will targets move to become permit controlled and enforced behaviors?
We have been warned! Compliance with these targets will not be optional if the NWO get their way! Is this what you want for your future? The time to counter this is now!
Philippine store where secondhand clothes, bags, and accessories, often imported from Europe or the US, are sold cheaply. The term ukay-ukay is derived from the Cebuano verb ukay meaning "to dig" or "to sift through", which is what is done by customers at these stores.
I don't have a problem with buying ukay clothes, often the only places I can find clothes bog enough. Aside from that, I envisage a massive migration from Quezon City to other metro centres if they are serious about C40. Often wokeism or global edicts (such as ESG for example) fall flat on their faces once people realise how bad and/or absurd they are
By chance I am reading a James Patterson novel called "Toys" set in 2060. (I found it in my free library in my condo). It's meant to be fiction, but so close to what is happening now. It was published in 2011.