As the 1% gather face to face again at the World Economic Forum in the luxury Swiss mountain resort of Davos from today, the Fight Inequality Alliance will protest in cities and towns across the world to say we need to #TaxTheRich.https://t.co/bCfczqhYqm
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Tag: Davos
Greta Thunberg Demands Davos Elite Immediately Halt All Fossil Fuel Investments
“I’ve been warned that telling people to panic about the climate crisis is a very dangerous thing to do, but don’t worry—it’s fine—I’ve done this before and I can assure you: it doesn’t lead to
‘Welp, Glad That’s Settled:’ Global Poll Finds Majority Believe Capitalism More Harmful Than Good
The majority also said they believe they won’t be better off five years from now.
Joining Thousands of Swiss Climate Strikers Before Davos, Greta Thunberg Tells World Leaders: ‘You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet’
“We sure have done this for a long time. But we need to make clear that this is just the beginning,” she told a crowd of thousands in Lausanne.
The Truth About the Trump Economy
NEW YORK – As the world’s business elites trek to Davos for their annual gathering, people should be asking a simple question: Have they overcome their infatuation with US President Donald Trump?
Capitalism’s Ownership of Global Warming
For example, the Davos paradigm, meaning plutocrats taking control is legitimized (in Anderson’s words) by: “The climate Glitterati, such as, M. Bloomberg, L. DiCaprio, N. Stern, C. Figueres, A. Gore, M. Carney. All of these people have huge carbon footprints, and they fly around the world in private jets to inform us what to do about climate change. They are supported by a whole cadre of senior academics promoting offsetting, negative emissions, geo-engineering, CCS, green growth, etc. These are all ‘an evolution within the system.”
The Davos set are cosying up to the far right – and scared of the left
The World Economic Forum event revealed how elites are more afraid of leftwing populists, than rightwing ones, says Guardian columnist Cas Mudde
1848+: The End(s) of History 