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</div><div>this refers to massive tip pt change in public perception of the problem, which leads to or parallels one for gov't and mebbe biz leaders, which in turn leads to WWII scale mobilization; interesting that davos schwab founder sees mindshift in contrast to physics/planet tip pt, references Oz fires
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=</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">120 ew</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Ashutosh Pandey</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Teenage&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/climate-crisis" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">climate</a>&nbsp;activist&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/greta-thunberg" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">Greta Thunberg</a>&nbsp;is returning to the Swiss ski resort of Davos for the 2020 World Economic Forum with a strong and clear message: put an end to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/fossil-fuels" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">fossil fuel</a>&nbsp;"madness."
</font></p><div class="rebellt-item col1" data-basename="particle-1" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/davos-thunberg-trump-climate-change-2644863489.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1" data-id="1" data-is-image="False" data-reload-ads="false" id="rebelltitem1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thunberg's missive is aimed at, among others, U.S. President Donald&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-watch/" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">Trump</a>, who in the past has mocked the Swedish environmental campaigner, saying she has an "<a href="https://www.dw.com/en/greta-thunberg-changes-twitter-profile-to-mock-trump-tweet/a-51646286" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">anger management problem</a>." Trump, who is among the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dw.com/en/trumps-lasting-damage-to-the-environment/a-44315788" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">most prominent climate change skeptics</a>, is returning to Davos after giving it a miss in 2019 due to a government shutdown.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's the first time Trump and Thunberg would be present at the same event since last year's United Nations&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/climate-change" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">climate change</a>&nbsp;summit in New York, where the teenager could be seen staring down the U.S. president as the two briefly crossed paths.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Later, Thunberg — named TIME magazine's Person of the Year 2019 — told the BBC that she "wouldn't have wasted [her] time" talking to Trump about the climate crisis at the UN event.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Honestly, I don't think I would have said anything because obviously he's not listening to scientists and experts, so why would he listen to me," she said.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[vid]</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'State of Emergency'</font></p></div><div class="rebellt-item col1" data-basename="particle-4" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/davos-thunberg-trump-climate-change-2644863489.html?rebelltitem=4#rebelltitem4" data-id="4" data-is-image="False" data-reload-ads="false" id="rebelltitem4"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Thunberg, who famously told Davos participants last year that "our house is on fire," has, however, found support among the organizers of the World Economic Forum, including its<b>&nbsp;81-year-old founder Klaus Schwab,</b>&nbsp;who said the world is facing "a state of emergency."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"We do not want to reach the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> tipping point of irreversibility on climate change,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">" Schwab told reporters on Tuesday. "We do not want the next generations to inherit a world which becomes ever more hostile and ever less habitable —</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;just </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">think of the wildfires in Australia," </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">he said.</span></b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><a href="https://www.dw.com/en/wef-risks-report-ranks-climate-change-as-biggest-global-threat/a-51997420" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">An annual risks survey published by the WEF</a>&nbsp;on Wednesday put climate and other environmental threats ahead of risks posed by geopolitical tensions and cyberattacks</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. It's the first time that the survey found the top five long-term risks were all environmental, from extreme weather events to businesses and governments failing to mitigate and adapt to climate change.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></div><div class="rebellt-item col1" data-basename="particle-5" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/davos-thunberg-trump-climate-change-2644863489.html?rebelltitem=5#rebelltitem5" data-id="5" data-is-image="False" data-reload-ads="false" id="rebelltitem5"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: flex; justify-content: space-between; align-items: center;"><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman">Stakeholder Capitalism</font></font></h3><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/sustainability" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">Sustainability</a>&nbsp;is the main theme at this year's Davos meeting, taking place at a time the world is grappling with global warming which is threatening to become worse because of growing divisions among nations and businesses on how to tackle it.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The meeting, which will see over 50 heads of state and government, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, descend on the Alpine resort, seeks to give concrete meaning to "stakeholder capitalism" — a concept that businesses should serve the interests of all society rather than simply their shareholders.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Business has now to fully embrace stakeholder capitalism, which means not only maximizing profits, but use their capabilities and resources in cooperation with governments and civil society to address the key issues of this decade," Schwab said. 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==</div><div>huffpo?<div><strong style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit">One last question. Former Secretary of State John Kerry just </strong><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-kerry-climate-coalition-world-war-zero_n_5de3a9bbe4b00149f730b4f3" target="
blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" box-shadow="box-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" inset="inset"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">announced</strong></a><strong style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit"> a new project, this star-studded effort called World War Zero, saying we’ve got to have war footing on climate change but we’re not married to any specific policy. John Kasich, the Republican former governor of Ohio, was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/30/climate/john-kerry-climate-change.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">quoted in The New York Times</a>&nbsp;saying he was on board because it’s policy agnostic and if there were a “no frackers” provision, he wouldn’t join. Is there a danger to these elite, “let’s just do something about climate change” efforts?</strong></div></div></div></div></div></div>