In collaboration with part owners – Mastercard – a Swedish startup has come up with the first credit card that limits spending based on the carbon emissions of the purchases.
The bottom feeder company describes itself like this:
“Doconomy is now launching the world’s first credit card with a carbon footprint limit, DO Black. The launch of this premium card marks the first milestone in the support that Doconomy provides to the UN Climate Change secretariat (UNFCCC) to encourage global climate action. DO Black not only helps users track and measure CO2 emissions associated with their purchases, but also puts a limit to the climate impact of their spending. Users can now sign-up to register interest for DO Black.
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”DO Black not only helps users track and measure CO2 emissions associated with their purchases but also puts a limit to the climate impact of their spending.”
It’s voluntary for now, but how long before it’s mandatory? It won’t just be Sweden. We will all have credit cards that stop people from buying things, not based on how much money one has, but on the carbon emissions of the purchases.
LET THEM EAT BUGS
The year is 2031.
Your electric car locked you out because you reached your driving limit.
You walk to the store to buy food. The steak you want to buy gets denied because you reached your C02 limit.
You walk home with a a bag of bugs and fake soy meat.
— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) October 6, 2021
Norway is planning to track all food purchases.
In an article titled “Statistics Norway demands to know exactly what Norwegians buy in the grocery store,” reporter Martin Gundersen wrote that Statistics Norway has “ordered the grocery chains NorgesGruppen, Coop, Bunnpris and Rema 1000 to share all their receipt data with the statistical agency.” Gundersen further reports that Nets, a payment service provider that processes about 80 percent of all in-store payments, “has also been required to share detailed information on all transactions.”
Norway has done one better and wants to track every single thing Norwegians buy.
The plan for the data isn’t merely to examine behaviors broadly but to look at the actions of specific groups.
“When the purchases are linked to person/household, it will be possible in the consumption statistics and diet statistics to analyze socio-economic and regional differences in consumption, and link it to variables such as income, education, and place of residence,” Statistics Norway wrote in its cost-benefit analysis.
The only reason to do it is to control the people in the name of the new religion – climate change.
They’re heading for a totalitarian nation.
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A Liberal Aunt asked me over the Weekend why I was building a Chicken Coup. I told her that at the rate we are going, if Democrats stay in charge, by 2024 a Chicken Egg will be more valuable then a $20 dollar bill. At the rate we are going money and credit cards will soon be useless and you can’t eat gold!
She believes anything can be fixed by Government just spending more money.
This credit card is a brilliant idea. It is a premium card. Those that love Global Warming (re-mis-named Climate Change) can pay extra!!!!
Go for it suckers!
We’re living in a sci-fi movie.
Most cars these days are connected and send information back to the car maker, which means that if the government wanted to do that, your car would send information on hwo many miles you drove that week, where you went ( to work, just to buy ice ccream – they also know what we buy – or drove to a bar ?) and how fast you were driving, and even if you accelerated hard or braked hard…
I read two articles recently that say the car also tells the company if you are using the AC, if the windows are down or up, and the car computer has a list of all your calls, all your contacts, even saves some photos et cetera
modern cars have dozens and dozens of sensors and the car computer sends most of that information to the car company.
my point being, they could decide that you have burned enough fuel ( or electricity ) in your car for the current month and either reduce the power your car has ( make it go slower, accelerate slower , the radio might play not as loud, the AC may not be as cold, the heated seats may turn off sooner ) or they may remotely lock it down ( unless you have an emergency and call 911 )
I did not save the links and don t remember where I read this, but the sources were reliable, maybe it was at Car& Driver magazine, I cannot remember.
As wonderful as our modern technology is, it also has a dark , a very dark side.
I drive 8 miles to the diner every morning for my breakfast, then to the school track to walk 2 miles and back home again. To do groceries I literally have to drive 20 miles each way. All of my doctors are between 20 to 45 miles (each way) from my house. I live waaaaaay out in rural Upstate NY and there’s not much out here but farms and houses. Quiet, but it’s real nice like that!!