You quoted a Bill Gates story so yes it's his stuff not Melinda's. As for Kerry, yes he was smart enough to marry wealth but he makes full use of the trappings while telling us we need to reduce our "carbon footprint", out of touch indeed.

Community property

Fortunately this is fringe lunatic stuff, and *most* folks at least in the US are smart enough to realize that if you permanently cut 50% of the economy, you'll cut 50% of the jobs. Tech companies are in favor of course because if everyone is on lockdown for life, that means a lot more screen time.

The ONLY way these people are going to achieve their emissions goals is to employ advanced low-carbon technology to maintain our current lifestyles in the developed countries, and allow developing countries to keep developing. Advanced nuclear power for example. Also you could make a large and broad environmental impact if EVERYTHING had to be designed for easy, near 100% recycling; no real need for much of anything anything to go in a landfill (or the ocean).

Most people in the world are simply not going to voluntarily buy into some sort of monastic existence.

Bears watching though, and the airline industry has to show carbon progress, that's not politically optional regardless of what you think of climate change (or climate fraud).

Maybe, but lunatic fringe it’s not—this “reset” is sponsored by the World Economic Forum, real movers and shakers, not misfit Occipy Wall Street types. It took real hypocritical chops to write this manifest after flying in to Davos on 1500 private jets. Switzerland turns over thei4 prime SAF base at Dubendorf to park these clowns. I’ve been there, it makes the KY Derby look like HS football game.

Just so we are clear...You are pointing out a technicality. You are not advocating that he should be in charge of anything? Maybe a weekend car wash for high school cheerleaders but nothing else right?

In the end, anyone who wears their ribbons on their utilities/fatigues is a weenie.

That is the point. They want all the resources. No travel for you. No meat for you. No going out to restaurants for you. No driving for you. They will keep buying bigger and bigger private jets and super yachts and enjoy the planet unrestricted until their heart’s content. You however are dirty. You are taking Greta’s future away.

If they achieve their goals of 7+% per year, you can forget having a job in this career, I wouldn’t be surprised if we have mass starvation in this country. Those New Zealand bunkers that these people have been buying might pay off very soon.

It's just talk.

It's easy and fun to talk about reducing emissions and carbon targets, but the reality is, everyone wants the economy to do well. These billionaires that you fear are the people who own most of the stock market. They have a very vested interest in it continuing to do well.

It's all bark, no bite. Just like the Paris deal. For those who think the Paris Climate deal is going to end the airlines, read this:


Unlike its predecessor, the Kyoto Protocol, which sets commitment targets that have legal force, the Paris Agreement, with its emphasis on consensus-building, allows for voluntary and nationally determined targets.[33] The specific climate goals are thus politically encouraged, rather than legally bound. Only the processes governing the reporting and review of these goals are mandated under international law. This structure is especially notable for the United States—because there are no legal mitigation or finance targets, the agreement is considered an "executive agreement rather than a treaty". Because the UNFCCC treaty of 1992 received the consent of the Senate, this new agreement does not require further legislation from Congress for it to take effect.--- from Wikipedia


Basically, there's no teeth to the deal at all. It's just a big nice idea. We won't achieve our "goals" and it won't matter.

These people control all the resources of the planet. They control all trade, communications, and means of production. Do you think they need you anymore? The stock market is mostly just held up by printed money. These people control the monetary system, they can literally make a new system if they wanted to. Guess what, they would still be rich and powerful.

yeah, most currency is indeed printed, worldwide

in any event, you might go outside for a walk, it is nice out.