#davos 2023

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[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Davos: Minister Reinforces Brazil's Commitment to Zero Deforestation

Marina Silva, minister of the Environment, was applauded during the panel and held a meeting with the president of the Inter-American Development Bank

The Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva (Rede), was applauded at the opening panel of the Open Forum in Davos this Monday (16th) when she declared that the third Lula government is committed to "zero deforestation, protection of indigenous peoples, democracy and sustainability".

"There are great expectations regarding Brazil, which has always contributed to important sustainability agendas. Unfortunately, in the last four years, we have become pariahs", said the Brazilian minister in the panel entitled "In Harmony with Nature", which she shared with personalities such as Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, president of the Association of Women and Indigenous Peoples of Chad.

The minister guaranteed that "sustainability will not be a sectoral policy, but a transversal one, covering energy, industry, mobility policies, across all sectors". "That's what will make the difference: acting in all dimensions. But this is not magic, nor does it happen overnight", she added.

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[biblenewsprophecy]

[hybridmindthoughtsreloaded]

Remember kids, if it's in the media, they want you to see it. He'll probably be moved to a position out the public eye and be replaced with someone else.

Anyone wanna take bets on his replacement? My money is on Elon Musk. 🤣

[averycanadianfilm]

“And yet somehow these are the people that we seem to rely on solving our problems, where they have proven time and time again, that they are not prioritising that,” she said. “They are prioritising self greed, corporate greed and short term economic profits above people and above planet.” - Greta Thunberg

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#davos #davos2023 #wef #style

[toshootforthestars]

Each year, the world’s masters of politics and finance ride carbon-spewing jets to the World Economic Forum in a lavish Swiss resort town bristling with armed guards, where they opine somberly about solving poverty and climate change. The very act of attendance exposes all the subsequent dialogue as hypocrisy.

The event serves primarily as a rare point of unity for political right and left wings, both of whom agree that everyone there should be in jail. If all of these professional decision-makers were really good at decision-making, they would replace the whole farce with an annual quick chat. “So then, we’ll carry on with global capitalism for another year. Agree? Right. Cheerio.”

Davos and similar conclaves can only be understood as performances. They are the stage upon which the Masters of the Universe act out the dramatic narrative of their own lives. They are exercises in mutual self-affirmation: we’re here, and we are important. What good is a powerful position without a rapt audience to listen to one’s pronouncements? Anyone can be rich, but only a select few can be influencers.

It is this intoxicating allure of performative influence that lends Davos its underlying absurdity. There is nothing very remarkable about officials who control the world getting together in private to make self-serving decisions; they do that all the time. That’s the job. The fatal flaw of the Davos crowd is that they are not satisfied simply with being in control of everything.

They also want to be good, or at least to give the public impression of being good. Thus the typical CEO and presidential interviews and panels of economic and geopolitical predictions – the real things – are leavened with piles of other cultural and do-gooder content meant to convey the idea that at the center this crowd of the world’s most cut-throat plutocrats and cold-blooded status-seekers lies a heart of gold.

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If the minds of Davos actually believed their own bullshit, they would shut the conference down immediately, understanding that it is a threat to the values they purportedly believe.

It is no exaggeration to say this monstrosity of opulence playing out amid the ominously reduced snowpack of the Alps is such a powerful symbol of all that is wrong with the neoliberal era of the world that it will help to bring about its own downfall.

It is a symbol of cloistered elites boldly pampering themselves as they lecture on the need for sustainability; it is a symbol of exclusivity draping itself in the language of democracy; it is a symbol of the unaccountable financiers and bureaucrats and intellectuals who went to the right schools and work for the right institutions and are therefore allowed to lock themselves in an impermeable bubble, gaze out in ignorance at a world whose problems they have never experienced, and prescribe a course of action that will, coincidentally, perpetuate the dominance they have enjoyed for generations.

The utility of any actually worthwhile networking or communication or information-sharing that occurs in the halls of Davos pales in comparison to the inferno of disgust that its existence stokes among millions of angry, mistreated, locked out people around the world who will never set foot inside its security cordon.

If nothing else, the attendees of Davos should shut it down out of pure self-interest. They’re making everyone mad.  But it is in the peculiar nature of bubbles that those inside will never know what they don’t know. Convincing Davos Man that his milieu is poisonous is as impossible as convincing Thomas Friedman that talking to cab drivers has not granted him infallible insight into humankind.

The problem is not so much that Davos exists – I can imagine a world in which it served as a useful sort of exile that kept dangerous people ensconced in a comfortable simulacrum of reality away from the rest of us, The Matrix for economic thinkfluencers, a zoo where you could watch a livecam of Larry Summers explaining to Anthony Scaramucci why higher unemployment would be good. No, the problem is that The Davos Matrix is plugged directly into the mainframe. The decisions that these people make in their little atmosphere of illusion percolates out into the real world, leaving the rest of us holding the bag as wealth trickles further and further upwards, decade after decade.

The only useful thing that happens at Davos each year is the release of Oxfam’s report on economic inequality, a document that always drives home exactly why Davos is a monstrosity. This year, Oxfam found that the richest 1% of people had pocketed two-thirds of all the wealth created in the past two years. Many of those same people digested this news with equanimity in a nice warm chalet, before heading off to make proclamations on a Davos panel.

The rest of the world simmers. The rage of the lower classes compounds. Some will go fascist, and some will go socialist, and some will just buy guns and bide their time.

The Davos types will continue speaking of “global risk” without noting that their own way of living is at risk as well. There is much that all the leaders at Davos could learn from the wide, wide world. But there is nothing that we can learn from them, except who to blame.

Hamilton Nolan, “The Masters of the Universe think they are do-gooders”

The Guardian   /  Jan 2023

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[ablanktechpriest]

"Stop all commercial flights! Private jets are completly fine tho!"

[visenyaism]

when stannis dies in twow and leaves melisandre davos and theon desperately chain smoking together in the giant outlived what they thought was their narrative purpose and yet the gods are not done with them get along shirt…then we are all gonna understand

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biosteel r u okay

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Minister of the Environment Meets Greta Thunberg, Gets emotional, and Leaves Davos with Homework for Brazil

Marina Silva says she was reminded of her beginnings in activism at 17; the agenda included 3 meetings with Kerry

Minister Marina Silva (Environment) ended this Thursday (19) her participation in the World Economic Forum, in Davos, with a brief contribution on a panel on the Amazon, which she left under applause, and a meeting with a group of young environmental activists including the Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg - a meeting that she says moved her. "It was a group of very determined, very committed young women, who are making a positive impact on the agenda of the combat against deforestation and CO2 emissions, and of the protection of the planet's balance," Marina told Brazilian journalists.

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[style-of-princess-beatrice]

A Royal Recycling (part 147)

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[deathshallbenomore]

scusate ma in che senso blanco non era nemmeno in gara cioè davvero questo qui ha spaccato tutto assolutamente per nessun motivo, dato che il problema tecnico non l’avrebbe messo in difficoltà, ad esempio, con la competizione

[annieqattheperipheral]

what if davo wins nothing bc everyone's all oof he's the obvious choice he's gotten enough and i have recency bias y'all did u see this other guy I'll give him a pity vote

But like every voter does that

[duchessofvastergotland]

We already know our first 2023 overseas visits for Victoria and Daniel! From 17th-20th January Prince Daniel will visit Switzerland for the World Economic Forum and from 13th-18th February the couple will make a joint visit to Australia and New Zealand.

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Victoria visited Australia back in 2005: