Climate change is the weirdest thing. We know our governments are corrupt, they sell out to the highest bidder. We know they'll scream and shout about how $4 billion for a wall on our Southern border is too expensive and yet won't bat an eye about sending $140 billion to defend Ukraine's border. Yet we are to believe that they all around the globe are uniting against this existential threat which is going to flood us out of our cities by 2020. Now it is true, sea level has risen by a few centimeters over the last 120 years or so. But think of the radical changes they are proposing to help slow the relentless change, perhaps from 5 centimeters every 120 years down to 1 or 2 centimeters every 120 years. They want to do away with gasoline, and pretty much all fossil fuels. Is that possible? No, there are many scientists who have crunched the numbers and try to explain to the illiterate masses that this is a pipe dream. They want us all to switch to electric cars and yet our electricity is generated by coal fired plants. It has been shown that there is no net reduction in the use of fossil fuel, it seems idiotic to spend all this money and get nothing in return. But it is worse, they spend billions to build a few charging stations, a tiny fraction of the number of gas stations currently available. But this is only the tip of the iceberg. They want to reduce how much meat you eat and replace your protein with bugs. They want a digital currency that will monitor your carbon footprint and deny payment when you exceed it. This means you better fast for a month before taking an airplane to go visit for thanksgiving.
But suppose for a second the people behind these rules are not idiots. Perhaps there is a very compelling reason for this. If they can switch to a Central Bank Digital Currency the government would have complete control over what you can buy or sell. On one hand that his a good thing, every single transaction will be taxed and the government will get more revenue. It will be easy to catch anyone doing anything illegal that involves money. It will certainly make it easy to catch terrorists. But there is a dark side. Suppose they don't like you protesting. Canada tried to freeze the bank accounts of truckers who were protesting. Suppose you criticize the government on Facebook and the next day your bank account is frozen. Now that is real power. Also, suppose you want to go down to protest at the border and you discover you have exceeded your "carbon footprint" and can no longer buy gasoline, much less a hamburger.
Sure it sounds like something out of the Twilight zone. But suppose it is really something out of the AI future. They are predicting AI will take 50% of the jobs in three years. How are you going to deal with the protests with all these people who have become jobless? Suppose the CBDC is simply there way to prepare for the hordes that will be going onto welfare. Suppose the whole Climate Change stick by an angry teenage girl and a bar maid is their way to get the illiterate masses to agree to the CBDC. Suppose that the Pandemic was a dress rehearsal. Australia tried having quarantine camps in the outback, China tried locking people into their apartment buildings, Canada tried freezing bank accounts and the US tried manipulating people with social media and the MSM. Imagine if they do this in the future only use all four tools. Imagine if they had a CBDC as a fifth tool.