‘Hypocrites’: Elites attend WEF summit with private jets, armed units
Global leaders, dignitaries, and other members of the world’s elite descended on Davos, Switzerland this week for the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2022, now entering its third day.
The annual summit is widely seen as an event at which the ruling class determines the world’s agenda, which the WEF has candidly set forth. The agenda is centered around environmentalism, even citing climate change as the biggest global threat.
“Environmental risks dominate the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2022 - for both the short and long term,” says the WEF. “Climate-change related risks also account for three of the top risks by severity in the next 10 years.”
However, some WEF Annual Meeting 2022 attendees have arrived at the summit via private jet, one of the environment’s archenemies.
“Private jets have a disproportionate impact on the environment. In just one hour, a single private jet can emit two tonnes of CO2,” says Transport & Environment. The average person in the EU emits 8.2 tCO2eq over the course of an entire year.”
“Our report finds that private jets are 5 to 14 times more polluting than commercial planes (per passenger), and 50 times more polluting than trains, a gap which will grow as private jet users move towards aircraft which are bigger and more polluting than their commercial alternatives,” the website added.
But despite the environmental threat, officials such as United States Climate Envoy John Kerry, an attendee at Annual Meeting 2022, continue to travel via private jet.
"Day 2 in DAVOS, another day of grotesque hypocrisy,” wrote Rebel News journalist Sophie Corcoran from the ground in Davos. “Private jets and heli rides for the climate preachers. extreme privacy for those who want to increased [sic] surveillance. Armed police to protect an organisation against gun control.”
Indeed, the WEF, which is adamantly opposed to guns, was this week found to have its own paramilitary unit whose members carry MP5 submachine guns instead of the standard-issue Glock pistols used by many police forces around the world.
Furthermore, while the WEF also pushes digital IDs and surveillance of citizens, the attendees enjoy “secure zones”.
