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Let’s make attending Davos as shameful as running a sweatshop

Swiss police officers take their positions at Davos.
Swiss police officers take their positions at Davos. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

 

Davos has just finished. You know, the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. What, didn’t you get your invitation? Oh dear, looks like you don’t really matter. Sorry about that.

 

It’s easy to mock Davos – so I will. It’s the annual schmooze fest where rich white men debate inequality and diversity. Where fleets of carbon-gushing private jets fly in philanthropists to pontificate about climate change. Where the world’s biggest corporations earnestly set out footling “strategies” and “action plans” to give the impression they’re addressing the social and environmental problems that they caused in the first place. FULL STORY

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