As at COP24, that shamefully inert gathering inside a former Polish coal mine towards the end of last year, the only person who made any sense whatsoever during the annual Davos Festival of the Exalted Egos: Greta Thunberg, as she broke the stupefying complacency with a concise call for urgent action towards the creation of a radically new political and economic paradigm.
The panel to which Thunberg had been invited had been scheduled to discuss “Responses to Climate Disruption”. She rejected that theme out of hand, and instead held a roomful of leather-loafered feet to the fire. Much media hubbub was generated by an economic historian who dared to suggest that the world’s ultrarich should pay their fair share of taxes; Greta’s words were treated as if someone had released a methane burp beneath the lavish buffet table.
Excerpts below, with images from a series of Scorched Earth paintings by Lynn Christine Kelly.
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WE MUST CHANGE EVERYTHING
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We took note of a quote from Hermann Hesse used by Lynn Kelly on her home page, relayed below:
There is the heart of the new paradigm,
in the heart of the trees, now scorched:
the ancient law of life.
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