between her Speech on May 15 Attending a ‘Beyond Growth’ conference held by the European Parliament, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen cited the 1970s degrowth plan announced by the Club of Rome as the European Union’s ‘beyond growth’ conference. The social market economy” was mentioned five times in five years. Less than 150 words.
“Social market economy” refers, of course, to the kind of central economic planning that has been carried out by authoritarian socialist governments throughout history. “And this is precisely why we are proposing a European Green Deal,” von der Leyen said at the conference. “Building a clean energy circular economy for the 21st century is one of the most important economic challenges of our time.” (Related: Vijay Jayaraj: The world is running away from unreliable green energy)
The Beyond Growth Conference agenda focused on developing plans to manage the disruption of economic growth, which is central to the real agenda of the energy transition. The energy minerals and other resources needed for wind, solar, and electric vehicles are limited, and in futile attempts to subsidize them to the scale needed to replace fossil fuels. , the limited ability to continue printing trillions of dollars of debt-financed dollars and euros necessarily implies coercion. In order to reach the global goal of net zero by 2050, many ordinary citizens of the Western world are lowering their living standards and limiting their mobility. The EU therefore needs to ‘beyond growth’ and return to a more primitive way of life.
The growing awareness and acceptance of these limitations, combined with the success of Western governments in forcing authoritarian decrees on their populations during the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to the current comprehensive narratives and issues are evolving rapidly. The narrative of the energy transition that used to be, “If you expand renewable energy and EVs, you won’t notice the difference in your daily life,” has surprisingly changed to “Everything will be scaled down, so you have to live with it.” rice field. It will be even faster in 2023.
a a report titled Another great example is the Urban Mobility Scorecard Tool: A Benchmark for the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility, published by the World Economic Forum in May.Primarily based on 2017 University of California, Davis report WEF report titled ‘Three Revolutions in Urban Transport’ will force authoritarian governments to reduce the number of vehicles on the road from the current global estimate of 1.45 billion to just 500 million I am claiming that The UC Davis report received little attention in 2017 because, at the time, climate change lobbyists were not brave enough to publicly discuss its real goals. because it didn’t. But that mask is now peeling off. (Related: David Blackmon: Beyond gas stove ban Democrats roar with even bigger goals)
The WEF report’s authors said citizens who can no longer own cars will still be allowed to travel from planned future cities, but only by “shared transit”, namely electric buses and thousands of miles of elevation. claims to be allowed only through its new network. – Speed rail. But California has made it clear that the idea of building a gigantic network of tens of thousands of miles of new high-speed rail across the Western world over the next 27 years is a complete fantasy. California’s own high-speed rail plan, 27 years old, was first proposed in 1996, and although its budget has ballooned from $8 billion to over $130 billion, it’s still a mile away. have not been able to lay a railroad.
The real world just doesn’t fit a fantasy like this plan. Everyone at WEF is fully aware of that reality. So the real implication of this plan is that it will allow accelerated implementation of socialist/authoritarian governments in the West to impose new restrictions on the lives of ordinary citizens, and this effort will help prevent the spread of COVID-19. began to accelerate during the pandemic of Authoritarian governments have always sought to restrict the free flow of information other than approved propaganda, and restrictions on movement are an important means of achieving that goal.
As the EU and WEF now freely admit, de-growth of the economy and forcing Western populations to live small and poor lives is the true end goal of this energy transition. The story has officially been changed, so we’d better take them at their word.
David Blackmon is an energy writer and consultant based in Texas. He spent his 40 years in the oil and gas business, specializing in public policy and communications.
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