C40 Cities

As national boundaries break down and city states become more dominant, this is what the mayors of certain cities have planned for you by 2030, if they get their way. 

C40 is a network of mayors of nearly 100 world-leading cities collaborating to deliver the urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis. Together, we can create a future where everyone, everywhere can thrive.

Let's start with air travel. See Figure 1.

Figure 1: source

Let that sink in. The progressive target is one short-haul return flight of less than 1500 kilometers every two years per person or every three years if the ambitious target is reached. For Australians living in Sydney and Melbourne and whose mayors have seemingly signed up for this, it means you don't get to leave Australia. Even New Zealand is out of reach because the distance from Sydney to Auckland is 2,155 kilometers.

Let's look at meat and dairy consumption targets. See Figure 2.

Figure 2: source

Take the progressive target of 90 kg of dairy. A litre of milk weighs a little over one kilogram so that translates to about one litre of milk every four days. The average supermarket sausage weight about 50 grams. The progressive target of 16 kg of meat means 320 sausages per year or less than one per day. Let that sink in. 

The targets for clothing are shown in Figure 3 and automobiles in Figure 4.

Figure 3: source

Figure 4: source

In Australia in 2022, the rate of vehicle ownership was 782 per thousand people. So the progressive target represents about a 75% reduction in vehicle ownership. As for the clothing targets, words fail me.

It's easy to dismiss these targets as unrealistic and unattainable but with the introduction of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) various "disincentives" and even outright prohibitions can be applied to our purchases so that we are forced to conform to these targets. One thing that can be done is to vote against the mayor of any city who has signed up to these C40 targets and make as many people as possible aware of what their mayor has done.

Our politicians and elected officials need to get a clear message that if they support ridiculous initiatives such as those proposed by the C40CITIES then they will be voted out of office.