Building low-tech cities sans Big Tech still pushes the UN's Sustainable Development agenda by degrading economic development and living conditions back into the 1800s. It's the same destination but with different routes to get there.
Whether Sanders wins the Democrat nomination or not, the Green New Deal mania in America will have been established and burned into the minds of young socialist zealots who will soldier on to transform America into Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy.
Europe is creating and ingesting its own poison pill that will divert massive investments down an economic rabbit hole. The social fallout will never be attached to the root cause of their demise: mal-investment tied to baseless and anti-human policies.
The war on CO2 in the name of global warming is the worst case of mass hysteria ever experienced on planet earth. The EU has declared that it will sink a cool one trillion euros into its member states to be 'net-zero' by 2050.
Any legitimate climate scientist knows that sunspot activity is the primary determinant affecting weather on earth. With sunspot activity dropping to a 200 year low in 2020, a mini ice-age is looming, and it will crush global warming hysteria.
Three angry moms demand health data before allowing 5G cell towers in their neighborhoods. In turn, hundreds of others are following suit. In fact, there are ample studies documenting the adverse effects of radiation, but 5g cell carriers deny and/or suppress such information, pleading ignorance or shifting responsibility off on the government.
Zume Pizza made headlines in 2016 when it became the first fully-automated-by-robots pizza delivery service; today, trucks are gone, robots are powered off and human employees are laid off. Other competitors continue to operate.
Xenobots represent a new life form and proof of concept. Initially, stem cells from frogs have been used, but stem cells from any living organism, including humans, could potentially achieve the same results. An ethical battle is brewing.
To produce the same amount of energy, solar farms take 450 times more land than nuclear plants and wind turbines take 700 times more land than natural gas wells and associated environmental damage is immense.
Wherever China gets its Technocratic hooks into a nation and then local economy, sparks begin to fly as they take over development, planning and social practices. Locals seldom win and concern is building everywhere.