The ‘Net Zero’ Scam And The World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’

Written by F. William Engdahl on April 29, 2026. Posted in Current News

The claimed necessity of reaching global ‘net zero’ ‘carbon’ by 2050 is in reality it is a blueprint for a global technocratic totalitarian corporativism, one that promises huge unemployment, deindustrialization, population control and economic collapse. All by deliberate design

Consider some background.

Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum (WEF) continues to promote his favorite theme, the ‘Great Reset’ of the world economy.

The key to it all is understanding what the globalists mean by ‘net zero’ ‘carbon’ by 2050.

The EU is leading the race, with a bold plan to become the world’s first ‘carbon neutral’ continent by 2050 and reduce its CO2 emissions by at least 55 percent by 2030.

In an August, 2020 post on his blog, self-appointed global vaccine czar Bill Gates wrote about the coming crisis in climate:

“As awful as this pandemic is, climate change could be worse… The relatively small decline in emissions this year makes one thing clear: We cannot get to zero emissions simply—or even mostly—by flying and driving less.”

With a virtual monopoly on mainstream media as well as social media, the global warming lobby has been able to lead much of the world into believing that the best for mankind is to eliminate hydrocarbons including petroleum, natural gas, coal and even the ‘carbon’ free nuclear electricity by 2050, that we hopefully might avoid a 1.5 to 2 degree Centigrade rise in average world temperature.

There is only one problem with this. It’s all propaganda and lies, and is in reality a cover for a diabolical ulterior agenda.

The Origins of ‘Global Warming’

Many have forgotten the original scientific thesis put forward to justify a radical shift in our energy sources. It was not ‘climate change’, because contrary to the propaganda, the Earth’s climate is constantly changing, controlled by changes in the Sun’s emissions, sunspot cycles and the Milankovitch Cycles.

Around the turn of the millennium as the previous solar-led warming cycle was no longer evident, Al Gore and others shifted the narrative in a linguistic sleight-of-hand to ‘climate change’, from global warming.

Now the fear narrative has gotten so absurd that every freak weather event is treated as proof of a ‘climate crisis’. Every hurricane or winter storm is claimed as proof that the Climate Gods are punishing us sinful CO2 emitting humans.

But wait. The entire reason for the transition to alternative energy sources such as solar or wind, and abandoning ‘carbon’ energy sources, is their claim that CO2 is a ‘greenhouse gas’ that somehow goes up to the atmosphere where it forms a blanket that warms the Earth below—global warming.

Before Lee Zeldin dropped the 2009 Endangerment Finding, ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions according to the US Environmental Protection Agency come mostly from CO2. Hence the focus on ‘carbon footprints’.

What is almost never said is that CO2 cannot soar up into the atmosphere from car exhaust or coal plants or other manmade origins.

Carbon dioxide is not carbon or soot. It is an invisible, odorless gas essential to plant photosynthesis and all life forms on earth, including us. CO2 has a molecular weight of just over 44 while air (mainly oxygen and nitrogen) has a molecular weight of only 29.

The specific gravity of CO2 is some 1.5 times greater than air. That should tell you that CO2 exhaust gases from vehicles or power plants do not rise high into the atmosphere to form the feared ‘greenhouse effect’.

This was illustrated a few years ago when several people suffocated in a swimming pool because they had dropped Dry Ice into it to create a ‘smoke’ effect. The CO2 from the Dry Ice settled onto the surface of the pool, and displaced the oxygen, causing suffocation to those in the pool.

To appreciate what criminal action is unfolding today around Gates, Schwab and advocates of an alleged “sustainable” world economy, we must go back to 1968 when David Rockefeller and friends created a movement around the idea that human consumption and population growth were the major world problem.

Rockefeller, whose wealth was based on oil, created the neo-Malthusian Club of Rome at the Rockefeller villa in Bellagio, Italy. Their first project was to fund a junk study at MIT called Limits to Growth in 1972.

A key organizer of Rockefeller’s ‘zero growth’ agenda in the early 1970s was his longtime friend, a Canadian oilman named Maurice Strong, also a Club of Rome member. In 1971 Strong was named Undersecretary of the United Nations and Secretary General of the June 1972 Stockholm Earth Day conference.

He was also a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation.

Maurice Strong was a key early propagator of the scientifically unfounded theory that man-made emissions from transportation vehicles, coal plants and agriculture caused a dramatic and accelerating global temperature rise which threatens civilization, so-called ‘global warming’.

He invented the elastic term “sustainable development.”

As chairman of the 1972 Earth Day UN Stockholm Conference, Strong promoted population reduction and lowering of living standards around the world to “save the environment.”

Some years later the same Strong stated:

“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”

He wanted to deliberately cause the collapse of most of the world’s economies.

This is the agenda today known as the Great Reset or UN Agenda 2030. Strong went on to create the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a political body which advances the unproven claim that manmade CO2 emissions were about to tip our world into irreversible ecological catastrophe.

Co-founder of the Club of Rome, Dr Alexander King, admitted the essential fraud of their environmental agenda some years later in his book The First Global Revolution.

He stated:

In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill.

All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.

King admitted that the “threat of global warming” was merely a ploy to justify an attack on “humanity itself.” This is now the ‘net zero’ ‘climate scam. It is anti-growth, anti-industry, and above all, anti-human.

The Alternative Energy Disaster

In 2011, acting on the advice of Joachim Schnellnhuber, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Angela Merkel and the German government imposed a total ban on nuclear electricity by 2022, as part of a government strategy called the Energiewende or Energy Turn, to rely on solar and wind and other ‘renewables’.

The aim was to make Germany the first industrial nation to be ‘carbon neutral’. The strategy has been an economic catastrophe.

Going from having one of the industrial world’s most stable low-cost and reliable electric generation grids, today Germany has become the world’s most expensive electric generator.

At the same time coal, the largest source of electric power, is being phased out to reach ‘net zero’. Traditional energy-intensive industries such as steel, glass production, basic chemicals, paper and cement manufacturing, are facing soaring costs and shutdowns or offshoring and loss of millions of skilled jobs.

The energy inefficient wind and solar, today costs some seven to nine times more than gas.

Germany has little sun compared with tropical countries, so wind is seen as the major source for ‘green’ power. There is a huge input of concrete and aluminum needed to produce solar or wind farms.

That needs cheap energy—gas or coal or nuclear—to produce. As that is phased out, cost becomes prohibitive, even with no added ‘carbon’ taxes.

Germany already has some 30,000 wind turbines, more than anywhere else in the EU. The gigantic wind turbines have serious problems of noise or infrasound health hazards for residents nearby the huge structures and weather and bird damage.

By 2025, almost a quarter of existing German windmills need replacement and waste disposal is a colossal problem. The companies are being sued as the citizens realize what a disaster they are.

In 2021, Deutsche Bank stated that to reach targets by 2030, the state will need to create an “eco dictatorship.”

At the same time the German push to end gasoline or diesel transport by 2035 in favor of e-vehicles is on course to destroy Germany’s largest and most profitable industry, the auto sector, and take down millions of jobs.

The lithium-ion battery-powered vehicles have a total ‘carbon’ footprint when the effects of mining lithium and producing all parts are included, that is worse than diesel autos.

And the amount of added electricity needed for a zero ‘carbon’ Germany by 2050 would be far more than today, as millions of battery chargers will need grid electricity with reliable power.

Now Germany and the EU begin to impose new ‘carbon taxes’, allegedly to finance the transition to zero ‘carbon’. The taxes will only make electric power and energy even more expensive, insuring the faster collapse of German industry.

The Depopulation Agenda

According to those advancing the ‘zero carbon’ agenda, it is just what they desire: the deindustrialization of the most advanced economies, a calculated decades-long strategy as Maurice Strong said, to bring about the collapse of industrialized civilizations, and with it a large reduction of the human population.

The World Economic Forum has made no secret of the fact it wants an 85 percent reduction of the world’s human population.

Hitler managed six million, they want to get to six billion.

To turn the present world industrial economy backward to a wood-burning, windmill turning dystopia where most of the world’s population will have to do without electricity, is an essential part of a Great Reset transformation under the Agenda 2030: UN Global Compact for Sustainability.

Merkel climate adviser, Joachim Schnellnhuber, in 2015 presented the radical ‘green’ agenda of Pope Francis, the encyclical letter, Laudato Si, as Francis’ appointee to the Pontifical Academy of Science.

And he advised the EU on its ‘green’ agenda. In a 2015 interview, Schnellnhuber declared that “science” has now determined that the maximum carrying capacity of a “sustainable” human population was some six billion fewer people:

“In a very cynical way, it’s a triumph for science because at last we have stabilized something –- namely the estimates for the carrying capacity of the planet, namely below one billion people.”

To do that the industrialized world must be dismantled. Christiana Figueres, a World Economic Forum Agenda Contributor and former executive secretary of the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, revealed the true aim of the UN climate agenda in a February 2015 Brussels press conference where she stated:

“This is the first time in human history that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally changing the economic development model that has reigned since the Industrial Revolution.”

What she meant by that has since become obvious. She meant regressing the world’s economies back to where they were about 300 years ago.

Figueres’ 2015 remarks are echoed today by French President Macron at the January 2021 World Economic Forum’s “Davos Agenda” where he claimed that “under the current circumstances, the capitalist model and open economy are no longer feasible.”

Macron, a former Rothschild banker, claimed that the “only way to get out of this epidemic is to create an economy that is more focused on eliminating the gap between the rich and the poor.”

Merkel, Macron, Gates, Schwab and friends will do so by bringing living standards in Germany and the OECD down to levels of Ethiopia or Sudan.

This is their zero ‘carbon’ dystopia. Severely limit air travel, eliminate car travel, restrict people’s movement, close ‘polluting’ industries, all to reduce CO2.

Uncanny how conveniently the coronavirus ‘pandemic’ sets the stage for the Great Reset and the UN’s ‘net zero’ Agenda 2030.

Even if that all happened, and we reached zero ‘carbon’ emissions, human activity produces just four percent of the total amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The other 96 percent comes from natural processes.

We would therefore have destroyed our civilisation to achieve a four percent reduction in atmospheric CO2.

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