2022-12-29
As often happens, I receive serendipitous communications which neatly mesh into an article!
First up is a contribution from David Kurten (Heritage Party) warning about the WEF planning for 15 minute cities to get us all walking and cycling. Pogo sticks may also be permitted I dare say, but not cars as they "destroy the planet".
There are many ways in which the planet is being destroyed and rare earth mining must be high on the list, along with polluting coal being burned to power electric cars, but I cavil. Anybody who is used to living in London knows that the traffic is absurd and the parking spaces rare as hens' teeth, so "something must be done"!
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Next up is a very well-thought through piece by Not Our Future concerning the proposals by Oxford City Council to introduce the first step towards the WEF-UN Agenda 2030 in their city.
Well worth reading and, if you are able, supporting.
As always the problem is neither unreal nor simple, nor always accurately portrayed.
CO2 emissions are not really problematic, but traffic congestion and associated pollution is real enough and some sensible local solutioneering would be very welcome no doubt.
But who is to judge?
Are the corporate moguls of the WEF-UN really best placed to impose a top-down solution that fits nowhere and is supported by nobody but their unthinking supporters, or are intelligent thinking local people contributing via the local political systems better positioned to create local solutions that work over the long term to their own satisfaction?
Oxford Council is the local political entity presumably with responsibility for town planning, so it's precisely up to the people of Oxford to hold them to account.
Yet as so often our political systems are bedevilled by political parties with top-down agendas to implement, and a populace that has been conditioned over many decades to leave the politics to the parties.
So perhaps Not Our Future have exactly the correct approach here - to politely and gently wake the populace to their political responsibilities.
This is both the problem and the opportunity of our times.
