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.
Austin has many residents who do not utilize heating and air conditioning for a housing unit.
Here in Austin, they engaged in the class dance where the humble servers wore masks while the “landed gentry” did not.
Once they get rid of cattle Texas ranches will be far cheaper than former Maui pineapple plantations.
Mexican food is heavily meat-centric
SOOOOOOO—A NEW PAIR OF SOCKS is 2 items-—add one pair of new underwear briefs-—MAXIMUM OF 3 items ???
ENFORCE THIS, YOU JERKS.
They expect to still be around in 2030 ?
You used "Lone Star" and "beers" in the same phrase......
"I told the waitress, "Please put this back in the horse..."
There will be plenty of Nolan Ryan beef...Just not at Minute Maid I guess...lol
Houston was once known as the energy capital of the world. Now they vote for the political party that is destroying the energy business.
The “ambitious targets” are absurd:
“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.”
Austin and Houston will become food deserts as people will go to towns outside these to get their groceries, meat and milk.
These cities will also have to set up roadblocks to keep people from bringing these items into the city and selling them out of the trunk of their cars.
This is nothing but “Virtue Signaling” by these two town administrations.
***In Texas?! Well more beef for the rest of us.***
Won’t work unless the brain-dead elect another FDR who had millions of cattle and hogs shot and buried to get the price up, in a time when people were starving.
“Houston was once known as the energy capital of the world. Now they vote for the political party that is destroying the energy business.”
Some people are just creating opportunities to buy energy resources on the cheap.
“Under meat and dairy consumption, the ‘ambitious target’ would be 0 kilograms of either for all citizens.”
Only because the elites want all the meat and dairy (and all the good stuff) all for themselves. They want to Soylent Green us peons.
Democrats want to stop your beef and milk consumption and limit your alcohol to two drinks a week. Clearly these are winning issues. Keep it up, Dems!
When Houston enacted a smoking ban several years ago, the restaurants just built up on the other side of the city limits and patrons smoked like crazy. Voters aren’t stupid. They’ll just resist.
Quotes:
1939 – The First Food Stamp Program
The idea for the first Food Stamp Program (FSP) is credited to various people, most notably Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace and the program’s first Administrator Milo Perkins. The program operated by permitting people on relief to buy orange stamps equal to their normal food expenditures. For every $1 worth of orange stamps purchased, 50 cents worth of blue stamps were received. Orange stamps could be used to buy any food. Blue stamps could only be used to buy food determined by the Department to be surplus.
The first recipient was Mabel McFiggin of Rochester, New York on May 16, 1939. The first retailer to redeem the stamps was Joseph Mutolo, and the first retailer caught violating the program was Nick Salzano in October 1939. Over the course of nearly 4 years, the first FSP reached approximately 20 million people at one time or another in nearly half of the counties in the United States, peak participation was 4 million, at a total cost of $262 million. The program ended in the spring of 1943 “since the conditions that brought the program into being—unmarketable food surpluses and widespread unemployment—no longer existed.”
“We got a picture of a gorge, with farm surpluses on one cliff and under-nourished city folks with outstretched hands on the other. We set out to find a practical way to build a bridge across that chasm.”
Milo Perkins
From 1954 on, Congresswoman Leonor K. Sullivan strove unceasingly to pass food stamp program legislation. On Sept. 21, 1959, PL 86-341 authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to operate a food stamp system through Jan. 31, 1962.
The Eisenhower Administration never used the authority. However, in fulfillment of a campaign promise made in West Virginia, President Kennedy’s first Executive Order called for expanded food distribution and, on Feb. 2, 1961, he announced the initiation of Food Stamp pilot programs. The pilot programs would retain the requirement that the food stamps be purchased, but eliminated the concept of special stamps for surplus foods. A Department spokesman indicated the emphasis would be on increasing the consumption of perishables.
On Jan. 31, 1964, President Johnson requested Congress to pass legislation making the FSP permanent. Secretary Orville Freeman had submitted proposed legislation to establish a permanent FSP on April 17, 1963. The bill that was eventually passed by Congress was introduced by Congresswoman Sullivan. Among the official purposes of the Food Stamp Act of 1964 (PL 88-525) were strengthening the agricultural economy and providing improved levels of nutrition among low-income households; however, the practical purpose was to bring the pilot FSP under Congressional control and to enact the regulations into law.
The major provisions were:
Required a state plan of operation and development of eligibility standards by states;
Required that recipients purchase their food stamps, paying an amount commensurate with their normal expenditures for food and receiving an amount of food stamps representing an opportunity more nearly to obtain a low-cost nutritionally adequate diet;
Established eligibility for purchased with food stamps of all items intended for human consumption except alcoholic beverages and imported foods (the House version would have prohibited the purchase of soft drinks, luxury foods, and luxury frozen foods);
Prohibited against discrimination on bases of race, religious creed, national origin, or political beliefs;
Divided responsibilities between states (certification and issuance) and the federal government (funding of benefits and authorization of retailers and wholesalers), with shared responsibility for funding costs of administration; and
Appropriated for the first year funding limited to $75 million; $100 million for the second year; and $200 million for the third year.
The Department estimated that participation in a national FSP would eventually reach 4 million at a cost of $360 million annually.
https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/short-history-snap
Creating the new serfs. The power elites are beyond despicable, they are EVIL.
Will this be like with Sanctuary Cities, where they recite the slogan but everyone knows they don’t mean it?
Houston and Austin have a lot of great mom and pop BBQ joints.
This is their livelihood. They will not comply.
Don’t let the C40 name fool you...it is a WEF organization.
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