Welcome to 2040. Do you have your calorie card open on your smartphone?
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Figured it must be old since they expected the man to work and I assume both are white.
What is sad is that COVID proved that most people will go along with what ever restriction as long as it saves them from what ever emergency the media tells them it is imminent as long as they get to feel superior to the "dumb right-winger who don' trust THE SCIENCE".
I think we are going to see this scenario in our times.
I thought that surely this must be a parody but it seems to be entirely serious. There's a URL at the end, the document it links to no longer exists (at least not at that address), but the website does: https://www.forumforthefuture.org/
Note that this was uploaded in 2011, 12 years ago. I think it might be an attempt to show a horrific future (thesis) due to fossil fuels - notice the line at the beginning, "In a world of fossil fuels and expensive energy, the only solution is...", and imply an antithesis (even more expensive, unreliable power generation) in order to prime the viewer to accept a synthesis (some kind of compromise, maybe one where you still own nothing and live in a pod, but you don't have a ration card, you just can't afford meat).
Or maybe it's just a really elaborate shitpost. It's so horrific and absolutely on the nose, I mean it outright admits that you can only own a car if you're rich, tee hee. I have no idea.
For a bonus, check out the org's team page. Lol, lmao even. https://www.forumforthefuture.org/Pages/Category/meet-the-team
Have a couple of archive links. For posterity.
https://archive.is/https://www.forumforthefuture.org/
https://archive.is/lSyIk
If this isn't a parody, these people are dangerously unhinged. Well, they are dangerously unhinged either way, actually.
Also, my solution to transportation? Don't fuck with our cars, government! It's all fake, all you have to do is not be authoritarian tyrants (IMPOSSIBLE.)
'Member that ad from around 2010, I think, that depicted just outright killing anyone who questioned global cool... warm... climate change by pressing a button that makes their head explode? That was fun.
I think they know that radical change will not be the best for them, they will slowly boil the frog by gradually moving to electric cars with driving assistance and self driving. Eventually they will no longer issue a drivers licences and those will have to buy self driving cars, when that step is done they will gradually move on to the centrally controlled hivemind of shared cars.
Not if we [redacted]...
Holy crap, it's real. And:
What a fucking surprise.
Of course they support it. They even directly say you can still have a car if you're rich.
In the future, bulking is for the rich only.
Make sure to archive the websites. I work with architecture firms a lot, and hear about this all the time. It's very much so real and taught in schools.
Holy authoritarian hell-hole batman!