Posted on 08/29/2023 1:59:30 PM PDT by JeepersFreepers
Both Austin and Houston are part of ‘C40 Cities,’ an alliance of mayors seeking to impact climate change and “cut their emissions in half by 2030.”
Two Texas cities are participating in an emissions-cutting program that seeks to end meat and dairy consumption.
According to the organization, “C40 is a global network of nearly 100 mayors of the world’s leading cities that are united in action to confront the climate crisis.”
Although largely funded by Democrat billionaire Michael Bloomberg, C40 has other donors including FedEx, Google, and the Clinton Foundation.
Both Austin and Houston are listed as participating cities, with “membership operat[ing] on performance-based requirements, not on fees.”
Houston is a “Megacity,” according to the C40 membership ranking. Megacities are “Cities that show exceptional climate leadership at the global level, and have an urban population that currently/is expected to exceed 3 million or more people by 2030.”
Austin is in the “Innovator” membership category, which includes “cities that show exceptional climate leadership at the global level, but do not meet the population/size criteria of a Megacity.”
Altogether, the participating cities make up a quarter of the global economy.
According to C40 Cities Executive Director Mark Watts, “As always, C40 has adopted a science-based approach and that science is clear: average consumption-based emissions in C40 cities must halve within the next 10 years. In our wealthiest and highest consuming cities that means a reduction of two-thirds or more by 2030.”
Watts stated this in a report from C40 Cities in 2019 entitled, “The Future Of Urban Consumption In A 1.5°C World.” The report lays out “ambitious targets” for cities to meet regarding the urban consumption of building materials, food, clothing and textiles, private transportation, electronics, and household appliances, as well as private aviation travel.
The report defines “ambitious targets” as the following: “Target level of ambition for consumption interventions that is more ‘ambitious,’ based on a future vision of resource-efficient production and extensive changes in consumer choices. This level was typically informed by expert judgment rather than existing research.”
Under meat and dairy consumption, the ‘ambitious target’ would be 0 kilograms of either for all citizens.
Same for Austin. Can't imagine anyone in Texas giving up BBQ. (Even if Austin is the blueberry patch in a strawberry field.)
Take them seriously. They want to do this to the whole country.
Yeah, but they'll increase the chocolate rations to 25 grams per week!
“Progress” = Most people living like medieval serfs.
Austin maybe. Houston? A—hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Obviously Michael Bloomberg has never had any of that Goode Company BBQ - it is pretty hard to beat.
The Goode Company BBQ on the Katy Freeway is in the manliest shopping center in the world. Across from Goode Company BBQ is Carter’s Country for your firearms and accessories, next to that an outfitter, and across from them an emergency animal center for your hunting dogs.
That place is all about meat.
Its designed to force 'normal' people to leave, which they will. Then the progressive property development people move in and buy at fire sale prices.
They are doing it across the country using different forms. Homeless, illegal immigration, crime, drugs, defund the police, out of control prosecutors and never ending corruption.
Then, when enough normal people have fled they will build the utopian nightmare of their dreams.
This will require us build building big beautiful walls around the hell holes. But we are a compassionate Christen people and will dump all of our leftover agg waste over the wall every day so they can enjoy the non dairy tofu or what ever they call it.
.....Leander, a suburb of The Peoples Democratic City of Austin....one of the fastest growing cities in the entire United States...no one is gonna give up our beef brisket and Dairy Queens..
Leander, Texas.....Growth Rate 10.1% ( 7,466) Growth Since 2020 33.47% ( 20,406) The current population of Leander, Texas is 81,371 based on our projections of the latest US Census estimates.The last official US Census in 2020 recorded the population at 60,965.
The “article” is not the problem.
They’re entomologically delicious!
Bloomberg, that’s a name I haven’t heard for a while.
They want to do it to the entire world. People are just excess livestock to these totalitarians.
The conditions in some of the gulags in the USSR were better than those. Seriously. At least they would get meat once a week and probably got new clothes more often too.
I started to reply to an early thread about turning off heat pumps when it gets cold in the winter. It seems the left/green extremists want to take us back to life in the middle of the 19th century.
Gets cold at night? Bundle up, forget about keeping the house warm.
Need to travel, take a bus, bike or walk; no cars for you!
Need to travel a long way? Take a train or don’t go.
Need/want to travel overseas? Maybe once in a lifetime.
Want to eat nutritious food? Gruel for you, peasant.
Want to war decent clothes? For that we’ll travel back to the 16th-century standard. Homespun—but from. what? Cotton and wool will be right out.
Want to live as a free man or woman? Forgetaboutit.
Hopefully the Mayors and the eco-freaks will starve first and give the rest of the communities a chance to regain sanity.
The elites don't, actually, believe this 🐎💩.
It's about control.
The original marxists used brute force to achieve their goals.
Effective, but messy and, oh, so distasteful to the sensibilities of the Davos neomarxists.
Their's is a kinder, gentler communism, at least by appearances.
The iron fist of tyranny, wrapped in a Gucci glove.
So much more enlightened!
They'll control food production, energy resources, all resources, in fact.
Along with DEI, ESG and the Social Credit Score they will control you.
You'll exist in your 15 minute city and own nothing and be happy!
It's a Brave New World!
“Suburbs of Austin & Houston experience an economic boom while those cities crater.”
If this goes thru they will be dancing in the streets of Lockhart and Rosenberg.
PS I know some really out of the way places they will never get to.
I live in Austin, the city is booming.
I’ve been to Austin. I found it to be fun. And it was hopping until 2am.
But during the pandemic, I know of towns that implemented a vaxx mandate for restaurant patrons. The restaurants in neighboring towns saw a brisk pickup in business.
Same sort of thing here. Economic substitutes can rally.
No ice cream, coffee at Starbucks, no cottage cheese, or lasagna. Mac and cheese, yogurt, sour cream dip, or anything made with dairy? Not happening.
They may be made with other kinds of “ vegetable milk and cheese “. They’re not the same.
From Austin...
https://m.thecapitalgrille.com/menu/lunch/appetizers-and-soups
Scroll down for dinner...
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