Last week, global elites and world leaders gathered in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual summit.
Adel Bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Climate Envoy for Saudi Arabia, said at a recent meeting in Switzerland, “There will be no cars.”
It can be recalled that Saudi Arabia unveiled its plans for a new futuristic city that will house 9 million people within a massive 1,500ft high, 109-mile-long mirrored wall in the middle of the desert. To put that in perspective, the reflective eyesore will be taller than the Empire State Building and the Eiffel Tower once it is completed.
The new “linear city,” dubbed ‘NEOM’ by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, will be outfitted with the most advanced technology available, including vertical farms, facial recognition, zero-emission transportation, cloud seeding, and other programs that are in development. The city will apparently even feature some chilling dystopian extras like robot cage fights and a fake moon.
During a panel session titled ‘The Evolution of Urban Life,’ Jubeir said, “[The Line] will revolutionize the way people look at cities and urban planning. NEOM is an attempt to create a city that is environmentally friendly, sustainable, that has a very high quality of life, that has virtually no traffic.”
“There will be virtually no traffic. You could go to different places very efficiently without using cars. There are no cars. There are going to be different types of transportation that are environmentally friendly and based on renewable energy,” Jubeir said during a meeting in Davos.
Many international leaders share the same vision, and they refer to it as the “new world of transportation,” Newsbreak reported.
“Prominent leaders argue that communal sharing, rather than individual car ownership, can significantly reduce the negative impact on the environment. This would mean that even supposedly eco-friendly electric cars would not be privately owned,” the outlet added.
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