In the first half of this report, we covered how President Trump dominated the World Economic Forum (WEF). But amid all these policy actions and the personality puffery, what became of the WEF’s pet topic, the environment? [some emphasis, links added]
Well, the temperature is coming down, you can say. What discussion there was of saving the world that we saw, in a trademark indolent fashion, mostly the leaders were undercutting their own hand-wringing climate concern.
What is telling is these very people appear not to be buying into their own Chicken Little palaver.
Each year, the WEF surveys “experts” (make of that what you will) about what they consider to be their greatest concerns. Around 1,300 eggheads were asked to list the topics they are most worried about, and the returns were revealing.
Economic concerns topped the list, with “extreme weather events,” “pollution,” “critical change to Earth systems,” and “biodiversity loss” all dropping in year-over-year ranking.
A caveat they tossed out was that they were still most worried about the environmental categories on the long-range list of concerns.
What this tells us is that they see the need to shore up the money flow now, and then, when they are flush, greenlight the global nightmare script once again.
One of the supposed environmental “winners” at the conference was China. If you twisted your head like a dog hearing a harmonica, that is for good reason.
The Chi-Coms – who have spent years wagging their lips over green deals while behaving as if putting ink on paper would take a blowtorch to the ozone – were praised for promoting cooperation to save the planet.
That these gathered leaders bought this sales pitch should tell us everything wrong with these soft-headed blowhards.
Attendees were swooning over how the Chinese were sounding like Gaia worshipers in the hemp Eco Tent at Burning Man, while Trump was making for the exit again on the Paris Accord.
What the Davos dumba**es missed is what Beijing was actually pushing. Sure, Xi’s mouthpieces in Switzerland were saying all the right things, such as calling for a “global collaboration on climate.” Clearly, Beijing got hold of the Davos Glossary and was using their hippie lingo against them.
Even the Chinese press tried to get in on the game, but managed to perform about as well as our own media industry in the process.
At China Daily, they proclaimed that their nation “can act as a vital stabilizer in this turbulent environment,” a first, to be sure. They also proposed a “unified global response” in order to battle unilateralism. Uh…huh…
The best, the outlet praised Canada’s Mark Carney for recognizing a global challenge. Somehow, Carney pegged the problem “without mentioning the United States,” as he then pointed at “American hegemony” as the cause. These guys are prepping their resumés for a Washington Post position.
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