Posted on 05/22/2017 6:41:39 PM PDT by Mafe
The world’s most powerful nation states are flirting with catastrophic conflict. Whether it is in Europe, Asia or the Middle East, for the first time since the 1960s we are facing a real possibility of nuclear confrontation. With nation states distracted, the threat of irreversible climate change also looms large.
Global anxiety is feeding the growth of nationalist movements, emboldened by the drum beat of populism. Anti-immigrant and anti-establishment parties are capitalizing on public disquiet, gaining footholds in political systems across the planet. But as alarming as all this sounds, there are opportunities to head off potential disaster.
One of the most powerful antidotes to populism is right in front of us. Many of the world’s cities are busily re-imagining politics, economics and environmental action from the bottom-up. Some of them are constructing a positive, inclusive and plural vision of the future, even as nationalist leaders peddle fear, close borders and build walls. “Cities are the vanguard of the global cosmopolis,” argues Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, “With people from everywhere – every faith, language, culture – living and working cheek by jowl, the stereotypes of the ‘Other’ peddled by populism are refuted by everyday experience.”
Plural cities will play a critical role in determining whether humanity survives this century, or not.
(Excerpt) Read more at weforum.org ...
You can always tell when you’re hearing the words of an elite globalist that has likely never been anywhere where the real people live or work.
Clinton and Obama armed North Korea, China, and Iran.
And they tell us that we are on the brink of nuclear annihilation because a Republican is in the White House.
No, once the Sun's magnetic activity picks-up again, the earth will again warm and the most recent Little Ice Age will be but a bitter memory.
It may take a generation or two or three, and billions may die, but it will end.
Because liberals think that plural cities are perpetually divisible by sectional appeals (e.g., BLM), so that all popular movements can be suppressed there.
The farce is strong in this one
Cities are Malthusian Death Pits.
That’s some major league gobbledy-gook there.
But on the bright side, those oh so Pinko mega-cities will be the primary targets for nuke strikes.
I hear Manchester is quite the plural city.
“the stereotypes of the ‘Other’ peddled by populism are refuted by everyday experience.”
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These idiots love throwing the word “Other” around.
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Sometimes they’re refuted, sometimes they’re reinforced.
To combat this guy's mentality, the Founding Fathers created the Electoral College. The United States is meant to be ruled by all of the People, not just by those of certain regions.
The World Economic Forum is based out of Geneva, Switzerland.
This article was published just in time for the “Diversity” celebration in Manchester England.
Many of the world’s cities are busily re-imagining politics, economics and environmental action from the bottom-up.
And driving out the overtaxed Middle and Upper middle class.
At least until the 'Other' sets up no go zones where native women, children or even fire and police departments dare not enter.
etc.
Plenty of data points to support a counter-theory.
I’m sure that the one place you should be is in one of those “elite plural cities” when SHTF .... just you and a couple million of your closest Progressive NWO buddies.
Yes, look how much better places like Denmark, France and Germany have become because of diversity.
And cities produce nothing really. They can’t survive without people who live in areas outside of the city. Where do they get their food and energy. Mostly everything they need to survive is shipped into city. They’re a huge tax burden on everyone else in the state. Leeches.
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