Good old George, backer of Gun Control Australia and the Greens.

Here's a bit of info we can dig into to.

http://www.15minutecity.com/
http://www.c40.org/

A 15-minute city is a residential urban concept in which most daily necessities can be accomplished by either walking or cycling from residents' homes. The concept (see also the New Urbanism of the 1980s) is present, among many, an approach which aims to create cities in which each dweller can do her/his usual main daily activities by walking or at maximum "biking" was popularized by Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo and inspired by French-Colombian scientist Carlos Moreno who in 2016 coined the term. 15-minute cities are built from a series of 5-minute neighborhoods, also known as complete communities or walkable neighborhoods. The concept has been described as a "return to a local way of life".

Took the above from Wikipedia. I can see nothing wrong with the idea of getting back to a position where people are more involved and interactive within their local community. The impersonal way our lives are now, not knowing our neighbours with little involvement in the local community is not a good thing.

Hi Bazz,

I have to admit that I didn't understand the concept of
the "15 Minute City." I had not heard of it. However
from the small amount of research that I've done thus far
it seems that it is already being attempted by quite
a few countries as part of their urban planning programs
where they're trying to decentralize the congestion of the
major urban cities.

They're trying to encourage the development
of outer suburbs and communties instead of just planning larger
and larger more conjested cities. Getting people
out of the city - and building self-sufficient communities
outside of the cities. This plan of course is going to need
support - and I guess in part it's already working in certain
areas.

If it's well planned and supported - and especially if people
can work closer to home, and not fight the city traffic -
it could well be the answer to our future urban planning.
It may be worth a try.

Hi Foxy,
It always sounds good, with positive things as selling points but it never works out that way, it always turns nefarious.

Take covid passports for example, they said they will only ever be used for covid tracking purposes.
Few moths later we hear they are using the data in criminal investigations.
Maybe others argue, we have the data so we have a duty to use it to prevent harm.
In any case no matter what they say, it always ends up turning into something else.

As for these 15-minite cities, they're not even hiding the nefarious aspects, but you might have to dig to find the info.

Someone else mentioned 'fines if you leave your area too many times'
and 'climate lockdowns', these are the things that we need to dig into if we really want to know what they are planning.

You need to be able to look at what they are selling from different perspectives
- One is the feel good side - we wish to mave cities livable and give people access to all they need without need for motor vehicles
- the other is the nefarious side, 'You will own nothing and be happy', they don't want us to own cars, they want to be able to lock us down at will and control everything we do, cameras working as invisible checkpoints keeping tabs on wherever we go, access to bank accounts and control our spending in line with emissions, everyone we associate with, and everything we look at on the internet.

They are even planning personal CO2 emissions quotas where you will pay a global climate tax on everything you do, and if you exceed your climate quota you must buy more carbon credits.
[tbc]

[Cont.]
They will have absolute control and oversight over everything we do, and it will be inescapable, and if you don't do what they want, they will just freeze your accounts and then track and apprehend you with their total surveillance.

They always sell it as being good, and safer and better for the environment...

But what if it was never about the environment, and that 'harm to the environment' is just a ruse to bring in all these Orwellian measures that they are planning and want - not for the environment, but to have total oversight and control over the populace?

Yesterdays conspiracy theory is tomorrows reality.
They call it conspiracy theory, so that people like yourself think the others trying to sound the alarms are nutjobs, and to dissuade you from looking into it for yourself.