The City of New York has a lot of problems, but Mayor Eric Adams has announced a new agreement between his administration and American Express. Together they will track your eating habits so the Carbon Cult can calculate CO2 emissions they will try to “reduce.”
Were American Express cardholders consulted? No. But a progressive government doesn’t ask. It tells.
Yesterday, New York City announced its plan to track the “food choices” of New Yorkers using credit card data from individual store purchases. According to the mayor, tracking individual food choices is a step towards “reducing the CO2 output” of New Yorkers.
The Adams administration has announced a plan to begin tracking the carbon footprint created by household food consumption as well as a new target for New York City agencies to reduce their food-based emissions by 33% by the year 2023. [Did they mean 2032 – I.C.?]
Adams is toeing the UN and WEF line as NYC joins with dozens-plus other cities in an invasion of privacy (or an act of tyranny, if you prefer) disguised as a social-responsibility exercise. CO2, as you all know, is a trace gas essential to life on the planet, but the left has successfully targeted and isolated it as a demon summoned by your (once) affordable Western Lifestyle. As with every other alleged program to ‘reduce carbon emissions,’ the real target is you.
If unchallenged, the Big Crapple will attempt to add other card companies to expand its systemic oppression of citizens in the name of [whatever advances Marxism].
As for priorities, I bet crime has a significant carbon footprint. Perhaps you (Mayor Adams) could do something about that to help save not just the planet but New Yorkers. You remember them. They – for reasons that remain a mystery – elected you to serve them, not serve them up. Not that you need to play along. This plot only affects American Express Card holders, so leave home without it. Stop using it. Maybe even cancel it.
Preven the surveillance.
As for the rest of you, unless you want the City working with credit card companies to track your purchases with a broader range of cards and purchases, you may want to have a word with the local ‘city councilor’ about the direction in which they’ve taken your government. You’re New Yorkers. That should come easy enough.
