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“Today, the concept of stakeholder capitalism, as well as the ideas that the complex issues in our world can only be solved through public-private cooperation is finally becoming mainstream! Stakeholder responsibility on a corporate but also on a global level remains the fundamental underlying principle behind everything we are doing.”
– Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder of the World Economic Forum [1]
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Is it a question of business and financial leaders adding their expertise to the problems facing the world to advance answers for the governments of the world? Or is it the other way around?
The World Economic Forum wrapped up its 24th annual meeting in Davos last Friday. The Davos leaders boasted about presentations on AI, the role of cities in bolstering sustainability, resistance and affordability, Central banks and digital currencies, insights into the geopolitics of the Middle East and Africa, and more. According to their website, the WEF provides “Crowdsource solutions for the world’s most important and pressing issues.” [2][3]
But the WEF no longer deliberates away in a vacuum of popular attention. In fact, the deliberations of the world’s business leaders and their allies in government is very much front and centre in the eyes of the prying public. And their talks, engaged behind closed doors, are stoking the fires of suspicion about what they are planning in the years ahead. [4]
The following video is a fake. Forged with the assistance of AI. But it pretty much sums up what the common man and woman thinks of the WEF:
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Is it a coincidence that farmers are being shut down due to the nitrous oxide their activities produce, but no one would even THINK of shutting down the financial gold rush springing from Artificial Intelligence which is expected to increase the consumption of energy. [5][6]
There are particular suspicions about the great quest to tackle climate change. Greta Thunberg and the message that carbon is “enemy number one” is hardly taken off of YouTube, Facebook and internet search engines the way criticism of mRNA Vaccines has been. In fact, critics of this position have been. [7][8]
Conventional climate change activism is NOT a threat to the elites. In fact, the history of the WEF from it’s start as the Club of Rome shows that their class WANTS the masses to think there is a global threat, apparently so that the solutions THEY provide will be embraced and not resisted. [9]
Problem. Reaction. Solution.
If climate change is the problem, what should we make of the solutions they provide. This is a question we will explore at some length in this week’s episode of the Global Research News Hour.
For the bulk of this week’s Global Research News Hour show, two figures who contribute regularly to Global Research, Peter Koenig and Julian Rose, weigh in on how the climate threat as posed by carbon is not what it appears (they are skeptics) and the role that is served in conjunction with pandemics and all the other threats facing the world and leading up to 2030.
We also let another Global Research writer, Elizabeth Woodworth weigh in with concerns about the WEF as undermining democracy, though coming from a position consistent with that of the overwhelming majority of published climate scientists.
Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020). Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
Julian Rose is an organic farmer, writer, broadcaster and international activist. He is author of four books of which the latest ‘Overcoming the Robotic Mind’ is a clarion call to resist the despotic New World Order takeover of our lives. Do visit his website for further information www.julianrose.info . He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
Elizabeth Woodworth is highly engaged in climate change science and activism. She has published 42 articles on Global Research, is co-author of “Unprecedented Climate Mobilization”, “Unprecedented Crime: Climate Science Denial and Game Changers for Survival,” and co-producer of the COP21 video “A Climate Revolution For All.” She is author of the popular handbook on nuclear weapons activism, “What Can I Do?” and the novel, “The November Deep”. For 25 years, she served as head medical librarian for the BC Government. She holds a BA from Queen’s and a Library Sciences Degree from UBC. She is a regular contributor to Global Research.
(Global Research News Hour Episode 419)
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Notes:
- https://www.weforum.org/about/world-economic-forum/
- https://www.weforum.org/
- https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/01/davos-2024-key-takeaways-for-cities-and-local-economies/
- https://www.globalresearch.ca/limits-growth-climate-change-digitization-everything-worldwide-censorship-all-leading-wef-behemoth-cult-commanding-it/5818827
- https://www.globalresearch.ca/world-economic-forum-how-usurps-treaty-based-intergovernmental-institutions/5847073
- Ben Payton (December 4, 2023), ‘Power mad: AI’s massive energy demand risks causing major environmental headaches’, Reuters; https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/power-mad-ais-massive-energy-demand-risks-causing-major-environmental-headaches-2023-12-04/
- https://www.globalresearch.ca/illegal-collusion-between-government-big-tech-exposed/5793607
- https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58831379
- https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/wef-54th-rejected/
