Cars have been attacked for some time. The most common reason given is related to pollution, but it is also true that a large part of it is progressive culture hates the fact that you can move independently. The desire to transfer mobility from private to collective transport also implies a clearly defined social project aimed at reducing the spaces of autonomy.
At this point Cars might have numbered their days. Everywhere in the world there is an intention to phase out the production of cars with internal combustion engines and to switch all production to electric cars. Many emphasize the difficulties linked to limited autonomy, battery disposal problems and the necessary restructuring of cities, which must have charging systems that do not exist today and whose construction will entail immense problems. The difficulties that the new brings with it Collectivism in green sauce The challenges to be overcome are numerous, but a rethinking is hard to imagine since everything rests on a very solid alliance between ideology and interests.
Recently, however, the World Economic Forum published a report that looks to the future a 75 percent reduction in the number of private cars. This white paper, entitled ‘Benchmarking the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility’, heralds a future of ‘smart cities’ that will attract even more people and centrally manage mobility through careful planning.
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Klaus Schwab and his followers have been moving in this direction for a long time, following in the footsteps of the former Club of Rome. Her technocratic vision calls for the abolition of property and the market, so that a number of semi-public and/or semi-private companies They manage people from the cradle to the grave. There is certainly an ideological hoax in all of this, but it is also easy to discern a clearly defined set of interests.
These plans multiply the power of the sovereign class; And that already explains why almost all politicians join this fight against the four wheels. And then there are significant financial issues that cannot be overlooked.
In the past few days, the federal government and Intel signed an agreement. The big industrial giant will build a huge chip production plant for the new ones in Saxony (ex GDR). electric cars. The policies that are forcing us to abandon the internal combustion engine have essentially opened up a road that brings huge profits to those working in certain sectors. But that’s not all: In order to support Intel’s enormous investment efforts, Berlin is providing the multinational company with a good 10 billion euros.
You have worked for years – with children and young people, with the media and with the film – to build up an anti-car culture. In doing so, they paved the way for a new kind of dirigisme in which large companies work together with politicians and intellectuals. Now a little all go to the collection.
Carlo Lottieri, June 21, 2023