By by Rhoda Wilson | The Exposé
Earlier this month the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (“DSIT”) published an update on the progress made toward the UK Science and Technology Framework.
Within this update is the mention of the UK being in the process of being associated to Horizon Europe.
Horizon Europe is the European Commission’s plan to implement “adapting our way of life” for climate change; funding digital, genome collections and cybersecurity projects under the guise of tackling cancer; a digital twin of the oceans; smart cities for which two UK cities have been selected; and, a “soil deal for Europe” which is another means of achieving the European Green Deal and UN Sustainable Development Goals.
This is the advance of technocracy. The UN Sustainable Development Goals is technocracy.
UK Science and Technology Framework
On 9 February, DSIT published an ‘update on progress’ report for the UK Science and Technology Framework (“UKSTF”). Launched in March 2023, the UKSTF is the UK government’s plan to cement the UK’s place as a science and technology superpower by 2030.
In 2023, as part of the spring budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer pledged almost £3.5 billion to achieve UKSTF’s goals. Around £900 million was pledged for a new “exascale” supercomputer and a dedicated AI Research Resource, and £2.5 billion in the next 10 years for a new National Quantum Strategy.
The exascale computers and AI research will allow researchers to understand climate change, power the discovery of new drugs and maximise potential in AI, according to a press release.
In the update on progress report, Secretary of State for DSIT Michelle Donelan said the government has committed to spending £20 billion over the next financial year on science and technology research and development.
A few days ago, we published an article giving an overview of the UKSTF update on progress report and the first of its “strands,” or action points: ‘developing and deploying 5 critical technologies’. The second strand, and the basis for this article, is ‘signalling UK strengths and ambitions’.
Signalling UK Strengths and Ambitions
The UK government has utilised various key communications moments to promote its science and technology capabilities. These efforts include launching the National Semiconductor Strategy, hosting the UK’s second Global Investment Summit, supporting the technology sector at London Tech Week, and leading the conversation at the world’s first AI Safety Summit.
Additionally, the government has launched campaigns to attract foreign investment, promote skills options, and drive-up applications to the Horizon Europe programme.
Below we expand a little more on two of the initiatives mentioned in DSIT’s update on progress report – the Global Investment Summit and Horizon Europe.
Global Investment Summit
The Global Investment Summit is the UK government’s flagship investment event and a key focal point for the government’s engagement with investors. The event held in November 2023 attracted 200 of the world’s most prominent investors and technology CEOs to Hampton Court Palace, London.
After the Summit, Installed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that investors had committed £29.5 billion in new UK projects and capital, triple the sum raised at the last Global Investment Summit in 2021. The UKSTF update on progress report highlighted a few of these investments:
- Microsoft announced it will invest £2.5 billion in critical AI infrastructure and next-generation data centres.
- Dutch company, Yondr, announced a £1 billion commitment to a new 100MW data centre in Slough.
- BioNTech outlined plans for a £1 billion investment in research and development activities with a new Cambridge laboratory and an AI centre for expertise in London.
Horizon Europe
On 13 February 2024, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth Iliana Ivanova met with DSIT’s Michelle Donelan in the latest of several initiatives designed to bring UK businesses and researchers back into the Horizon Europe fold.
The UK has been out of the Horizon Europe programme since it started in 2021 and only formed an association with the programme at the beginning of this year. Bridging funding from the UK government meant that UK-based academics and companies were still able to take part in pillar II of Horizon Europe, in consortia focusing on global and industrial challenges.
Horizon Europe is a 7-year European Union research and innovation programme that was launched in 2021 with a budget of €95.5 billion. It has five missions to “bring concrete solutions to some of our greatest challenges”:
- Adaptation to Climate Change: support at least 150 European regions and communities to become climate resilient by 2030.
- Cancer: working with Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan to improve the lives of more than 3 million people by 2030 through prevention, cure and solutions to live longer and better.
- Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030.
- 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030.
- A Soil Deal for Europe: 100 living labs and lighthouses to lead the transition towards healthy soils by 2030.
EU Mission: Adaptation to Climate Change
A rather bizarre paragraph on the European Union’s (“EU’s”) website relates to this mission. It begins: “Despite all continuing efforts to reduce emissions and to achieve carbon neutrality, a warmer climate can’t be avoided anymore.”
Having described a new problem for climate alarmists – that global warming can’t be avoided – the EU gives their solution. “We need to be better prepared to cope with the inevitable effects of climate change, adapting our way of living,” the Mission states.
No surprises there. The climate change agenda has never been about “global warming” and has always been about money and control. It’s the next sentence, that is bizarre.
Having stated that “a warmer climate can’t be avoided anymore,” the EU then states “We must step up action both to cut emissions and to build our resilience.”
Below is a screenshot of the full paragraph so you can read it for yourself.
Having got themselves tongue-tied in one of their famous word salads, the sentence following the paragraph above states: “The Mission will also help deliver the European Green Deal.”
We can probably ignore everything written on the ‘EU Mission: Adaptation to Climate Change’ webpage, and narrow the mission down to this one sentence, or more specifically the phrase “deliver the European Green Deal.”
EU Mission: Cancer
What’s striking about this mission is the number of programmes associated with it. For the sake of brevity, we haven’t described what these programmes are, instead opting to provide hyperlinks. A quick review of the pages hyperlinked will show there is a strong digital-related agenda to the EU’s “cancer-related” mission, as well as cybersecurity and genome collections.
EU cancer-related funding is provided by the Horizon Europe Programme, the EU4Health Programme, the Digital Europe Programme, the Euratom Programme and the Interregional Innovation Investments Instrument.
The EU has awarded well over €4 billion in funds to cancer research and innovation projects since 2002. All the projects it has funded can be found in the CORDIS database.
A complementary portfolio of projects on cancer supported by Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan can be found HERE (EU4Health Programme) and HERE (EUCAIM project, Digital Europe). Other “cancer-related” projects supported by Digital Europe include QCLN (cybersecurity) and Genomic Data Infrastructure (network of national genome collections). The Interregional Innovation Investment Instrument supports the DIGIONE I3 project (digitalisation of public administration and healthcare).
EU Mission: Restore our Ocean and Waters
With the help of 12 “independent experts” the European Commission analysed EU-funded projects and identified over 800, from 16 EU funding programmes, that contribute to the objectives of the ‘Restore our Ocean and Waters’ Mission.
The Mission addresses the ocean and waters as one. It plays a key role in achieving “climate neutrality and restoring nature.” How? Through broad public mobilisation and engagement and “a digital ocean and water knowledge system, known as Digital Twin Ocean.”
The European Digital Twin Ocean (“DTO”) project aims to model the ocean’s multiple components, provide knowledge and understanding of the past and present and create trustable predictions of its future behaviour. It was launched by Ursula von der Leyen at the One Ocean Summit in Brest in February 2022.
“Its ambition is to make ocean knowledge readily available … This knowledge will help design the most effective ways to restore marine and coastal habitats, support a sustainable blue economy and mitigate and adapt to climate change,” the website states. And continues:
“The European DTO will provide consistent high-resolution, multi-dimensional descriptions of the ocean. This includes its physical, chemical, biological, socio-ecological and economical dimensions, with forecasting periods ranging from seasons to multi-decades.”
The European Commission has been investing about €10 million annually since 2021 to develop a core DTO. This is in addition to the €19 million Iliad project, funded under the Green Deal Call for research proposals to pilot the DTO concept, as well as several research projects developing the background science.
If it wasn’t for the €30-€49 million already spent on Digital Twin Ocean, we could be forgiven for thinking they proposed this on April Fools’ Day. But alas, it appears they are being serious, and it’s not only the EU that appears to be away with the fairies.
The Digital Twin of the Ocean is a main element of the Digital Ocean Knowledge System under the EU Mission Restore our Ocean and Waters.
It is also a priority in many different initiatives such as the International Ocean Governance, the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, the All-Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance and the G7 working group Future of the Seas and Oceans Initiative which the EU contributes to.
The European DTO builds on the EU Digital Agenda, will be interoperable with Destination Earth, and will benefit from the upcoming initiative for Ocean Observation.
European Digital Twin of the Ocean (European DTO), European Commission
What can the Digital Twin Ocean be used for? Researchers will be able to use it to predict how climate change and human activity will affect marine ecosystems.
EU Mission: Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities
The Mission webpage states that cities play a pivotal role in achieving climate neutrality by 2050, which is the goal of the European Green Deal.
It has two aims: “deliver” 100 climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030; and, ensure that these cities act as experimentation and innovation hubs to enable all European cities to follow suit by 2050.
Alarmingly, 377 cities from all EU member states as well as nine associated countries and countries negotiating associations submitted an expression of interest in becoming one of these dystopian cities. However, the European Commission announced on 28 April 2022 that 112 cities had been selected to participate in the Cities Mission.
100 of the cities come from all 27 European Union member states, with 12 additional cities coming from countries associated or in the process of being associated to Horizon Europe.
The EU requires that the 112 cities develop “Climate City Contracts,” which include an overall plan for climate neutrality across all sectors such as energy, buildings, waste management and transport, together with related investment plans.
Climate City Contracts are co-created with local “stakeholders” and citizens with the help of the EU NetZeroCities platform. The European Commission, together with NetZeroCities, will “support” the effective implementation of the Climate City Contracts.
You can download a PDF which lists the proposed 112 smart cities HERE. The UK’s Bristol and Glasgow are two of those unfortunate cities.
EU Mission: A Soil Deal for Europe
The main goal of the Mission is to establish 100 “living labs” and “lighthouses” to “lead the transition towards healthy soils by 2030.”
According to the Mission webpage, living labs are where experimentations happen in real-life conditions operating with end-users such as researchers, farmers, foresters, spatial planners, land managers and citizens.
Lighthouses are single sites, like a farm or a park, to showcase “good practices.”
The Mission will support the EU’s ambition to lead on global commitments, notably the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and contribute to the European Green Deal targets on sustainable farming, climate resilience, biodiversity and zero pollution. It is also a flagship initiative of the long-term vision for rural areas.
You can read the 77-page Mission implementation plan HERE.
Funding opportunities are available for projects that contribute to this Mission for soil. Projects must work on subsoil; soil pollution and digital tools; innovations to prevent and combat desertification; soil-friendly practices in horticulture; spatial planning; cultural and creative initiatives for bringing communities closer to soil; and, establishing the first wave of living labs.
Tools of Technocracy
Where is all of this leading to? Technocracy.
Technocracy was formulated in the 1930s at Columbia University. Howard Scott has been called the founder of the technocracy movement. Marion King Hubbert joined the staff of Columbia University in 1931 and met Scott. Hubbert and Scott co-founded Technocracy Incorporated in 1933, with Scott as leader and Hubbert as secretary.
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Technocracy is dealing with social phenomena in the widest sense of the word; this includes not only actions of human beings, but also everything which directly or indirectly affects their actions. Consequently, the studies of technocracy embrace practically the whole field of science and industry. Biology, climate, natural resources and industrial equipment all enter into the social picture.
The Technocracy Study Course, Marion King Hubbert, 1932
In other words, as Nicholas Creed noted, technocracy is sustainable development. The UN Sustainable Development Goals is technocracy.
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