The WEF Proposed Tracking the Carbon Footprint of EVs – But Will It Stop There?
Jeff Brown | Jan 11, 2023 | Bleeding Edge | 12 min readPrint
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Dear Reader,
January 16 to 20 mark the days of the next confab of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. Every time a meeting takes place, I’m always wondering what shenanigans, or what evil, this group of unelected officials will get up to next.
I pay close attention because there are very powerful forces behind the WEF that have worked hard over the last couple of decades to reshape our world in their eyes – in ways that will ultimately benefit “them” and come at great costs to “us” and the things that are dear to our preferred way of life.
Scanning through the list of presentations, one caught my eye: “Why We Need Battery Passports,” scheduled for January 18. This isn’t a new topic for the WEF, as it’s been discussed and in the works for years.
The idea that’s being implemented now is to have digital “battery passports” for electric vehicles (EVs) to track their performance, track the battery value chain, benchmark batteries for sustainability, and track carbon emissions.
The WEF’s goal is to use this digital battery passport system to reduce overall carbon emissions from transportation by 30% by 2023, which is in line with the Paris Agreement.
According to the WEF, the battery passport: “Will strengthen indicators, including life-cycle information, governance, and environmental and social standards, aiming ultimately to change behavior toward sustainable and ethical practices and improve multiple ESG parameters.”
What does that even mean?
For those of us who have read WEF materials, it all sounds similar: fluffy, without substance, and superficially all for the greater good.
I’ve long maintained that I want nothing more than a peaceful planet that gets 100% of its energy from carbon-free power-generation sources. Ironically, the technology to accomplish that exists today in the form of nuclear fission.
Third and now fourth-generation fission technology is extremely safe and effective. Why hasn’t the developed world adopted it?
For those who don’t care for fission, nuclear fusion – the power of the sun – is right around the corner. Just last month, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had a breakthrough in demonstrating the first net energy output fusion-energy reaction.
It was a fantastic proof of concept, a historical point in time, and a sign of incredible things to come later in this decade… Which is what makes the WEF’s battery passports so odd.
The WEF’s stated goal is to reduce the transportation emissions through the use of EVs, as if that will solve the “climate crisis” that it so often refers to. Yet the WEF says nothing about where the electricity comes from to “fuel” the EVs that it’s so keen for all of us to drive.
This position is particularly ironic considering that Western Europe relies heavily on oil, natural gas and, most recently, an increased use of coal to produce electricity.
Worse yet, Europe has been cutting down ancient forests in order to produce wood pellets, which are burned to produce electricity. I know it’s kind of hard to believe, but that’s where the electricity is coming from.
Yes, we can reduce automobile emissions if we drive an EV. But we’re still burning fossil fuels at the power generation plant to produce the electricity for the EV. How in the hell does that make the world a better place?
The WEF talks of creating a “circular economy.” So instead of “take, make, waste,” society will “take, make; take make.”
Make sense? I didn’t think so.
I’m a big proponent of recycling anything that I can. It makes sense to me. Why would I put something in a landfill that can be recycled and reused? And selfishly, I always feel good when I recycle.
Recycling is part of the idea of a circular economy.
That’s fine, but it ignores the basic fact that massive strip mines need to be built that are extremely damaging to the Earth to get resources to produce batteries for EVs. The mining equipment is all powered by fossil fuels, as the only way it gets done is with raw horsepower.
And the world hasn’t even mined a tiny fraction of what’s needed to achieve its goals for EV adoption over the next eight years. Not even close. My point is that there aren’t enough old EV batteries that we can recycle to produce enough new batteries. They’re only a drop in a bucket.
It pains me to see initiatives like this that are focused on the wrong thing. And they completely ignore these inconvenient truths.
One might argue that the effort may be foolish and misplaced, but it’s not evil. That’s an easy trap for us to fall into.
Plans like these provide cover for the “Great Reset” and the implementation of digital IDs that track everything we do. The battery passport is just one part of that, and an important part, as transportation is naturally a large driver for carbon emissions – both for EVs using electricity from fossil fuels and for internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles.
Yes, the WEF’s plans for a digital ID are very real, and openly discussed. The plan is to monitor our telecommunications, our healthcare, our financial services, our food consumption, our travel, our buying decisions, our transportation, and even what we say on social media.
This will be used to assign a carbon footprint score, and a social score that will either enable us to do certain things in life or prohibit us from doing the things we want.
By way of simple example, if our carbon footprint is too high one month, our digital wallet will prohibit us from purchasing any airline tickets or buying meat of any kind. We may or may not be given the option of buying carbon credits to offset our carbon score that would allow us to travel again.
This isn’t just a crazy idea. This is a plan that’s been in the works for more than a decade, and it’s nearing implementation in many countries.
The WEF openly states that it’s inserted its graduates in powerful positions in countries around the world. Looking at the list of individuals who have been through the WEF reeducation program over the last 20 years should make anyone’s jaw drop.
I raise these issues for awareness of what the “master plan” looks like.
It’s not magnanimous; it’s nefarious. And it’s a world that would feel claustrophobic to most of us who relish not only our own freedom, but the freedom of others, and who feel strongly that freedom is worth both living and dying for.