![]() ![]() The concept of the 15-minute city was born with ‘ C40’. ![]() Under the new proposals, if any of Oxford’s 150,000 residents drives outside of their designated district more than 100 days a year, he or she could be fined £70. It’s the social credit scheme that starts with your car and works like anti-frequent-flyer points. ![]() Residents will have to register their cars with the council and they will be tracked to count their journeys through the key gateways. The council plans to cut car use and traffic congestion by placing strict rules on car journeys. On the surface, these 15-minute neigbourhoods might sound pleasant and convenient. In these districts, it is said, most household essentials will be accessible by a quarter-of-an-hour walk or bike ride, and so residents will have no need for a car. To this end, Oxfordshire County Council, which is run by Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party, wants to divide the city of Oxford into six ‘15 minute’ districts. The green agenda is taking inspiration from the illiberal days of lockdown. Meeting all of one’s needs within a walking, biking or transit distance was suddenly a matter of life and death.Īnd then the dark hand of the totalitarian managers appears, as James Woudhuysen, warned in Spiked in late October: The obvious, yet incomplete, answer is the pandemic… with COVID-19 and its variants keeping everyone home (or closer to home than usual), the 15-minute city went from a “nice-to-have” to a rallying cry. In the WEF’s own words - this rearrangement of cities is absolutely about climate change:Īs climate change and global conflict cause shocks and stresses at faster intervals and increasing severity, the 15-minute city will become even more critical.Īnd the solution was the pandemic (they really say that): The 15 Minute City is a UN and WEF plan, because they care about you want you to drive less.Ī cartoon from the WEF just for you good girls and boys: Lockdowns in European countries “may have some direct, short-term, positive impacts on our environment, especially in terms of emissions and air quality, although these are likely to be temporary,” the EEA said in a statement.Climate lockdowns coming? You will be tracked in your suburb and happy about it. Last year, the Copenhagen-based European Environment Agency (EEA) said its data showed that the concentration of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) fell sharply in countries where lockdowns were imposed in the spring of 2020. Similar observations were made at European level. Thus, air pollution can be considered a co-factor of morbidity and mortality by COVID-19.” In September 2020, the Île-de-France Regional Health Observatory confirmed in a publication that “short- and long-term exposure to ambient air pollution is the cause of chronic diseases, and that pollution reduces the body’s immune response to infections. It has also suggested improving agricultural practices to reduce ammonia emissions, improve the thermal renovation of housing and reduce the air pollution impact of wood heating.Īddressing the issue of outdoor air pollution is all the more crucial because it is an aggravating factor for COVID-19, the agency said. To tackle air pollution, the agency urged people to change travel habits and called for teleworking to be more widespread. The agency called for “capitalising on some of the lessons learned from the spring 2020 lockdown analysis” while urging for continued efforts to reduce all sources of pollution. The French agency recalled that for the 2016-2019 period, air pollution has caused no less than 40,000 deaths per year and reduced the life expectancy of people aged 30 and over exposed to small PM2.5 particulate matter by almost 8 months. ![]() In the EU, 13 percent of deaths are linked to pollution, said a new report published on Tuesday (8 September) by the European Environment Agency (EEA), which stressed the current pandemic put environmental health factors in the spotlight. In EU, 1 in 8 deaths linked to pollution: report ![]()
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