Hundreds of politicians and corporate stars gathered this week for the annual edition of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It’s an event that could be useful for expanding international trade, seeking private investment, and even shaking hands with conflict leaders. But since its debut, that is no longer the case: the Forum has evolved into a festival of “socially responsible progressive science,” to put it in the words JR Guzzoin an article on climate change in the latest issue of west from 2022.
One of the most acclaimed speeches on the podium was that of former Democratic Senator John Kerry, the US government’s “Envoy for Climate Affairs.” Kerry described the audience as “a select group of people who want to save the planet”. Brazil has sent ministers Fernando Haddad (finance) and Marina Silva (environment) every government offers what it has.
John F. Kerry, America’s First Special Envoy for Climate Affairs | Photo: WEF/Disclosure
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The speeches of the ministerial couple in various committees were frightening. Marina explained that half of Brazil’s population is starving about 120 million people, or an entire Japan. Since no “testing station” has yet manifested, nor explained where it got this number from, it seems to be another one of those “narratives of good” sticking simply because they were said by “chosen people”. even if they don’t really have any support.
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Fernando Haddad has traveled to Switzerland to preach a boycott of companies that don’t fit the left’s ideological framework. An unsuspecting viewer may have wondered why the Treasury Secretary would want to bankrupt some national companies that provide jobs, pay taxes and inject money into the economy? Even in most Brazilian editorial offices, the speech did not cause astonishment.
No wonder the aligned press didn’t publish a line about the meetings between major CEOs and governors in Davos Tarcísio de Freitas from São Paulo, for example, left to “sell” his investment program with the private sector. But it was overshadowed by the week’s big headline: the arrest of activist (who refuses to grow up) Greta Thunberg for jumping into a coal mine in Germany a way out the government found for shutting down Russia’s gas supply has the winter.
Greta Thunberg arrested at protest in Germany Photo: reproduction
Greta, Kerry, Marina and a select group of people are the essence of this “elite who see themselves as holders of a messianic right to ‘care’ about others or the planet and want to do so by force and without the consent of the governed, who would be too stupid to understand all that.” Rodrigo Constantino. “The people in Davos just want to protect us. Even if they have to destroy our lives to do it,” she writes Ana Paula Henkel.
The possible conclusion is that, like Brendan O’Neillby Spiked, in another excellent article in this issue on climate hysteria: “The madness of green agenda activists has peaked”.
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Cover of the Oeste Magazine, issue 148 | Photo: Shutterstock