Mark Ruffalo, Brian Eno and Abigail Disney sign letter timed to coincide with World Economic Forum in Davos. Plus, what if this was the year we finally learned to rest?
Mark Ruffalo, Brian Eno and Abigail Disney sign letter timed to coincide with World Economic Forum in Davos. Plus, what if this was the year we finally learned to rest?
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Almost 400 millionaires and billionaires from 24 countries are calling on global leaders to increase taxes on the super-rich amid growing concern that the wealthiest in society are buying political influence.
An open letter, which was released to coincide with the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, urges world leaders attending this week’s conference to close the widening gap between the super-rich and everyone else.
Signatories include the actor and film-maker Mark Ruffalo, the musician Brian Eno and the film producer and philanthropist Abigail Disney.
What did the letter say? “A handful of global oligarchs with extreme wealth have bought up our democracies; taken over our governments; gagged the freedom of our media; placed a stranglehold on technology and innovation; deepened poverty and social exclusion; and accelerated the breakdown of our planet,” it reads.‘Nostalgia is not a strategy’: Carney is emerging as unflinching realist ready to tackle Trump
In a wide-ranging speech that was at times elegiac for the predictable rules-based order, Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister of less than a year, laid out a doctrine for a world of fractured international norms, warning “compliance will not buy safety,” writes Leyland Cecco.
“The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it,” Carney said, in a speech he reportedly wrote himself. “Nostalgia is not a strategy.”
The speech to politicians, media and business leaders attending the World Economic Forum in Davos received a standing ovation. While Carney did not explicitly mention Donald Trump, the Canadian prime minister nonetheless alluded to growing frustration and concern that the White House was eager to dismantle and weaken the “the architecture of collective problem-solving” that had defined much of the past eight decades.
