Experts increasingly see Covid, vaccines, and restrictions as a watershed moment for conspiracy-driven and anti-authority activists.
“One of the remarkable things is the normalization of hardcore conspiracy theories. This isn’t like conspiracy theory-light, it’s a hardcore conspiracy theory,” he said.
“People turned up to a couple of our meetings and were talking about things which were nothing to do with this at all — describing why climate change didn’t exist. Very odd and quite alarming.”Nigel Farage, the far-right populist and former leader of the Brexit Party who unsuccessfully ran for Parliament seven times, said on Twitter last week: “Mark my words, this isn’t going to end with 20mph zones and low traffic neighborhoods, no no, this is the beginning of climate lockdowns.
“It’s amazing to switch from being a researcher at a university to being a public enemy of the global movement of conspiracy theorists,” said Carlos Moreno, an associate professor at the IAE Paris-Sorbonne Business School in Paris. Cyclists and pedestrians in Paris in April. The city's mayor, Anne Hidalgo, is a vocal advocate of the 15-minute-city urban planning concept.Moreno suggests a “pyramid of priorities” that put pedestrians in first place, followed by bicycles, public transport, electric cars full of passengers, taxis and regular private cars — in that order.
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