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| - In the summer of 2025, a video circulated online of British anti-vaccine activist and former Pfizer executive Michael Yeadon warning people about restrictions on travel and private property ownership purportedly included in the United Nations "2030 Agenda."
Here's what Yeadon said in the
When the U.N., and Bill Gates, and Klaus Schwab tell you that they've got a U.N. 2030 plan with sustainable development goals — I think there are 17 or 21 of them — and every one of them says you won't be traveling, you won't have a private car, we won't be using international shipping to move goods around, there won't be any flights — except military or perhaps very rich people — you won't own anything, you'll be happy, you probably won't live in your own house, you'll be using much less energy for everything, including heating, manufactured goods, and so on.
When they tell you that, you should assume that they're serious about it.
Posts sharing the video of Yeadon have spread on platforms like Facebook and X since at least 2023; many of these posts centered around Yeadon's allegations about restrictions on private property, flights and car ownership. "No travel. No private property. No flights. No democracy," one popular Facebook post sharing the video said.
However, the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, available in full online, does not include anything about restricting private property, car ownership or air transportation, instead calling for more equitable access to property ownership, better road safety and more public transport. Thus, we rate this claim false.
Yeadon, a retired pharmacologist, has a history of spreading false and unsubstantiated rumors. He is best known for his views against vaccines, which many lend credence to because of his background as an executive at Pfizer — even though Yeadon reportedly worked as an allergy and respiratory researcher in a position unrelated to vaccines.
Yeadon, in response to an inquiry as to what evidence he had supporting his claims about the United Nations 2030 Agenda, instead insisted his false claims about vaccines were true, sent a list of personal attacks and said Snopes was not "faintly interested in things I have said."
"You cannot claim without blushing that I'm a conspiracy theorist," Yeadon continued. "I'm a career professional from the pharmaceutical industry, who correctly characterised the injections as designed intentionally to harm recipients."
United Nations 2030 Agenda
The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all member states in 2015, created 17 global "Sustainable Development Goals" aimed at providing "a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet."
The goals represent ambitious ideals to meet by 2030, including "no poverty," "zero hunger" and "gender equality."
Some goals do focus on property ownership, but with the intention of expanding access for women and low-income people. Here's one example on Page 22 (emphasis ours):
5a. Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws.
Several of the goals also focus on expanding access to public transportation, creating safe cities and reducing fossil fuel use, but nothing in the 41-page agenda referenced restrictions to travel like the kinds alleged by Yeadon.
In fact, searches in the agenda document for the terms "airplane," "home ownership," "houses," "aircraft," "cars" and "travel" returned no results — likely because the goals do not include detailed specifics, instead leaving it to the member states to develop a "national framework" for achieving these ideals. One goal related to transportation on Page 26, for example, is as follows:
By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons.
It is then left up to the countries to implement them — although the goals are not legally binding, meaning no legal consequences exist for failing to meet them. (Notably, the United States, under President Donald Trump's administration, announced at a United Nations meeting in March 2025 that it "rejects and denounces" the goals and would "no longer affirm them as a matter of course.")
The United Kingdom's approach to the goal above, for example, focused on capping rail fare and creating an "action plan" to improve public transport access for people with disabilities (see Page 30), whereas China's approach appeared centered around building more urban public transportation (see Page 100).
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