15-Minute Cities

NO!!! The radical left is using climate lockdowns to imprison us in communist cities where we’ll be forced to walk to all the nearby amenities.

Sources & Citations

• Google Trends: “15 Min City” Search term interest since 2018

• What Is A "15 Minute City" & Why Are They Part Of "The Great Reset"? w/ Marc Morano – Ask Dr. Drew (YouTube)

• AFP Factcheck: Ohio train derailment fuels 15-minute city conspiracy theories (2023) 

• Instagram post by standupcardiff (2023)

• Reuters Fact Check: Fact Check-‘15-minute city’ is an urban planning concept that promotes easy access to essential amenities (2023)

• Institute for Strategic Dialogue: ‘Climate Lockdown’ and the Culture Wars: How COVID-19 Sparked a New Narrative Against Climate Action (2021) 

• Project Syndicate: Avoiding a Climate Lockdown (2020)

• MarketWatch: Opinion: We need to act boldly now if we are to avoid economy-wide lockdowns to halt climate change (2020) 

• TedTalk by Carlos Moreno: The 15-minute city

• MPDI: Introducing the “15-Minute City”: Sustainability, Resilience and Place Identity in Future Post-Pandemic Cities (2021)

• NYT: He Wanted to Unclog Cities. Now He’s ‘Public Enemy No. 1.’ (2023)

• Teen Vogue: What Are “15-Minute Cities” and Why Are Conspiracy Theorists Worried About Them?  (2023)

• NewsBusters: Soros/Gates-Funded Org ($6.5M): World May Need ‘Climate Lockdown' (2020)

• IPCC: Climate Change 2022 Mitigation of Climate Change, Working Group III Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2022, PDF Download)

• Coin Bureau: 15 Minute Cities: Oxford Won't Be the Same! (YouTube, 2023)

• Climate Depot: UK Guardian activists hope Coronavirus lockdown becomes climate lockdown: ‘What was once impossible (socialist, reckless) now turns out not to be, at all’ (2020)

• Oxfordshire County Council: Consultation on trial traffic filters (2022)

• Oxfordshire County Council: Traffic filters: What traffic filters are and how they will work.

• Oxfordshire City Counci’s Twitter post about 15 Minute Cities

• Vision News: Oxfordshire County Council Pass Climate Lockdown 'trial' to Begin in 2024 (2022)

• The Daily Sceptic: Oxford County Councillors to Introduce Trial Climate Lockdown in 2024 (2022) 

• Archive.org: Jordan Peterson Tweet (2022)

• Twitter: The New Statesman: The 15-minute City is a working-class nightmare (2023)

• Forbes: Tory MP Uses Conspiracy Theory In U.K. Parliament Against 15-Minute City Concept (2023)

• Archive.org: Fox News: The Ingraham Angle: In a Net-Zero Economy, You’ll Be Cold and Hungry (2023)

• USA Today: Fact Check: False claim UK city will test 'climate lockdowns' in 2024 (2022)

• AP News: Traffic plan in Oxfordshire, England, isn’t a ‘climate lockdown’ (2022)

• Reuters: Fact Check-Oxfordshire County Council to trial congestion-reducing traffic filters, not a ‘climate lockdown’ that stops residents leaving neighbourhoods (2022)

• DeSmog: Revealed: The Science Denial Network Behind Oxford’s ‘Climate Lockdown’ Backlash (2023)

• Bloomberg: The 15-Minute City Freakout Is a Case Study in Conspiracy Paranoia (2023)

• C40: Introducing Spotlight On: 15-minute cities (2021)

• Portland.gov: The Portland Plan (2012) 

• The Guardian: The Guardian view on the climate and coronavirus: global warnings (2020)

Episode Credits

Hosts: Rollie Williams & Nicole Conlan 

Executive Producer: Ben Boult 

Audio Producer: Gregory Haddock 

Researchers: Carly Rizzuto  

Art: Jordan Doll 

Music: Tony Domenick

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