{"id":1567204,"date":"2022-07-23T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1567204"},"modified":"2022-07-23T06:19:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T10:19:31","slug":"world-economic-forum-calls-for-end-to-wasteful-private-car-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/world-economic-forum-calls-for-end-to-wasteful-private-car-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"World Economic Forum Calls for End to &#8220;Wasteful&#8221; Private Car Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fworld-economic-forum-calls-for-end-to-wasteful-private-car-ownership%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1567204&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><\/p>\n<h2>The globalist elites say too many people own private vehicles for the planet\u2019s good<\/h2>\n<div id=\"authorDate\">\n<p>\u00a0on&#038;nbsp22nd July 2022 @ 6.00pm <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<figure title=\"&#039;The average car or van in England is driven just 4% of the time,&#039; the WEF paper sets out\">\n<div class=\"articleImage\">\n<p><span class=\"creditNew\">\u00a9\u00a0press<\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>&#8216;The average car or van in England is driven just 4% of the time,&#8217; the WEF paper sets out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The World Economic Forum (WEF) has published a paper calling for the end of \u201cwasteful\u201d private car ownership.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The WEF argues that communal sharing of cars is the way forward to lessen global demands for precious metals and fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>The globalist elites say too many people own private vehicles for the planet\u2019s good.<\/p>\n<p>Most are barely driven and a universal model that will take consumers \u201cfrom owning to using\u201d their cars is the way forward.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe average car or van in England is driven just 4% of the time,\u201d<\/em> the WEF paper sets out.<\/p>\n<p>They argue that people should sell their car and walk or share because <em>\u201cCar sharing platforms such as Getaround and BlueSG have already seized that opportunity to offer vehicles where you pay per hour used.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to the WEF, the nd to private ownership is essential and can be applied from everything from cars to private homes and even city-wide design principles.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA design process that focuses on fulfilling the underlying need instead of designing for product purchasing is fundamental to this transition,\u201d<\/em> the WEF sets out.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is the mindset needed to redesign cities to reduce private vehicles and other usages.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">U.N. Joins World Economic Forum in Push to End Oil, Gas, and Coal Use<br \/>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ubRe1C5Iik\">https:\/\/t.co\/ubRe1C5Iik<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Neon Nettle (@NeonNettle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NeonNettle\/status\/1526986090627866626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The WEF is not alone in seeing almost criminal culpability in anyone who owns a vehicle for private use.<\/p>\n<p>The International Energy Agency (IEA) has directed global governments to urgently cut oil supply to domestic consumers.<\/p>\n<p>They also encourage compliance with its call for lowered consumption by \u201cnudging\u201d people out of their private cars.<\/p>\n<p>The IEA 10-point plan to drive <em>\u201cchanges in the behaviour of consumers\u201d<\/em> and reduce gas demand at the pump includes:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Reduce speed limits on highways by at least 10km\/h<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many countries already use temporary speed limit reductions on highways, mostly to reduce congestion and\/or air pollution and to improve road safety.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Work from home up to 3 days a week where possible<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Around one-third of the jobs in advanced economies can be done from home, opening up the possibility of reducing oil demand while maintaining productivity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Car-free Sundays in cities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Car-free Sundays were introduced in countries such as Switzerland, the Netherlands and West Germany during the 1973 oil crisis. Cities in other countries have used them more recently to promote public health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Reduce public transport prices and incentivize walking and cycling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Investment in public transport and infrastructure to support walking and cycling has been boosted by sustainable economic recovery packages introduced in response to the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Alternate private car access to roads in large cities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Restricting private cars\u2019 use of roads in large cities on alternate weekdays is a measure with a long track record of successful implementation around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers in Ireland have already been warned they will be forced off the roads.<\/p>\n<p>The population packed into \u201chigher density\u201d cities under a climate plan which will \u201crevolutionise\u201d people\u2019s lifestyle and behaviours.<\/p>\n<p>In order to avert a \u201cclimate apocalypse\u201d, the government plans to force people \u201cout of private cars because they are the biggest offenders for emissions\u201d with proposals that include banning fossil fuel vehicles from towns and cities nationwide to intentionally cripple ordinary motorists, local media reports.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/neonnettle.com\/news\/16165-world-economic-forum-the-age-of-human-robots-is-over-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[READ MORE] World Economic Forum: The \u2018Age of Human Robots Is Over\u2019<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The globalist elites say too many people own private vehicles for the planet\u2019s good \u00a0on&#038;nbsp22nd July 2022 @ 6.00pm   \u00a9\u00a0press &#8216;The average car or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1575218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1575218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}