The globalist elites and their private jets have arrived in Davos, Switzerland, for yet another World Economic Forum (WEF) based on a week of fine dining and billionaire back slapping in luxurious surroundings – with a few meetings thrown in for good measure.
As they do so, they draw scorn for their hypocrisy, while ordinary people are urged to forego regular commercial air travel in the name of saving the planet.
According to a Greenpeace study released on Friday, over a thousand private jets delivered dignitaries to last year’s summit in the plush Swiss holiday resort, and the sheer volume of flights generated four times the carbon dioxide emissions such aircraft would produce in an average week.
Greenpeace released the analysis, conducted by Dutch consultancy CE Delft, ahead of this year’s round of moneyed self-congratulation.
“Europe is experiencing the warmest January days ever recorded and communities around the world are grappling with extreme weather events supercharged by the climate crisis,” Klara Maria Schenk, transport campaigner for Greenpeace in Europe, said in a statement.
“Meanwhile, the rich and powerful flock to Davos in ultra-polluting, socially inequitable private jets to discuss climate and inequality behind closed doors,” Schenk added, noting the WEF has long warned of impending doom because of the “world-wide disaster” of climate threats.
According to the report, 53 percent of the 1,040 private jets studied were for short-haul trips of less than 466 miles, while 38 percent were for trips of less than 311 miles.
Greenpeace accused attendees of “ecological hypocrisy,” questioning why the WEF claims to be committed to the global goal of keeping warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) when the emissions generated by all private jets flying into and out of Davos airports last year were equivalent to the emissions produced by approximately 350,000 average cars for a week.