Chaired today by London mayor Sadiq Khan, C40 calls itself a ‘network of mayors of nearly 100 world-leading cities collaborating to deliver the urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis’. The concept of the 15-minute city was born with ‘ C40’. 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. It’s the social credit scheme that starts with your car and works like anti-frequent-flyer points. Residents will have to register their cars with the council and they will be tracked to count their journeys through the key gateways. The council plans to cut car use and traffic congestion by placing strict rules on car journeys. On the surface, these 15-minute neigbourhoods might sound pleasant and convenient. In these districts, it is said, most household essentials will be accessible by a quarter-of-an-hour walk or bike ride, and so residents will have no need for a car. To this end, Oxfordshire County Council, which is run by Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party, wants to divide the city of Oxford into six ‘15 minute’ districts. The green agenda is taking inspiration from the illiberal days of lockdown. Meeting all of one’s needs within a walking, biking or transit distance was suddenly a matter of life and death.Īnd then the dark hand of the totalitarian managers appears, as James Woudhuysen, warned in Spiked in late October: The obvious, yet incomplete, answer is the pandemic… with COVID-19 and its variants keeping everyone home (or closer to home than usual), the 15-minute city went from a “nice-to-have” to a rallying cry. In the WEF’s own words - this rearrangement of cities is absolutely about climate change:Īs climate change and global conflict cause shocks and stresses at faster intervals and increasing severity, the 15-minute city will become even more critical.Īnd the solution was the pandemic (they really say that): The 15 Minute City is a UN and WEF plan, because they care about you want you to drive less.Ī cartoon from the WEF just for you good girls and boys: Climate lockdowns coming? You will be tracked in your suburb and happy about it.
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