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Swedish climate activists Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer, Isabelle Axelsson, and Vanessa Nakate take part in a "Friday for Future" youth demonstration in a street of Davos on January 24, 2020 on the sideline of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting. News
#TheWorldIsWatching: Youth Activists Direct Ire Over Climate Inaction at WEF Elite
"If only leaders were as good [at] taking real action as they were giving speeches," said Greta Thunberg.
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg protests during a "Fridays for Future" protest in front of the Swedish Parliament Riksdagen in Stockholm on October 9, 2020. (Photo: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images) News
Enough 'Blah Blah Blah' From Global Elites, Greta Thunberg Declares at Digital Davos
"I'm only here to once again remind you of the emergency we are in. The crisis that you and your predecessors have created and inflicted upon us."
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"Oxfam believes billionaires are a sign of broken economic system and that extreme wealth should be ended," the international anti-poverty group said Monday. "We believe the world would be a better place if there were a lot less billionaires and a lot more nurses." (Image: Oxfam International) News
'Abolish Billionaires': Oxfam Report Shows Combined Pandemic Wealth of Richest 10 People Could Pay to Vaccinate Entire World
"Rigged economies are funnelling wealth to a rich elite who are riding out the pandemic in luxury, while those on the frontline of the pandemic... are struggling to pay the bills and put food on the table."
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Inequality is not just a flaw in the system, it is the core of its design. (Photo: Screenshot) Views
It Is Time to Bill the Billionaires
The 1 percent does not have solutions for our system of inequality because they are its primary beneficiaries.
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President Donald Trump at the 2020 World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland Views
The Evolution of ‘Davos Man’ into . . . Trump Fan!
With everything from tax cuts to deregulation, the president has made himself indispensable to the world's mega rich.
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg attends a session at the Congres center during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 21, 2020. Views
Greta Thunberg Needs No Defense: Why We Must Keep Climate Striking
While President Trump dismissed Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and scientists as "perennial prophets of doom " at the World World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, climate strikers in drought-stricken southeast Australia were posting photos on Twitter of Biblical rounds of dust and...
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer, Isabelle Axelsson, and Vanessa Nakate take part in a "Friday for future" youth demonstration in a street of Davos on January 24, 2020 News
'We Have So Much More to Do,' Youth Climate Activists Declare as Global Elite Close Out Davos Forum
"It is time to get out of our comfort zones."
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President Donald Trump at the 2020 World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday. (Photo: Shealah Craighead / White House) Views
Trump’s Rosy Economic Outlook Is a Big Lie
It should not surprise us in the least that the most dishonest president in U.S. history would spin a fantastical vision of the economy that appears to exist only in his imagination.
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"The gap between rich and poor can’t be resolved without deliberate inequality-busting policies." (Photo: blind.fortune / Flick) Views
Oxfam Report Contains Dire Warning for Global Capitalism
"Extreme wealth is a sign of a failing economic system."
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Humanity Risking 'Global Disaster' as Material Consumption Passes 100 Billion Tons Annually
"Governments must urgently adopt circular economy solutions if we want to achieve a high quality of life for close to 10 billion people by mid-century without destabilizing critical planetary processes."
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