Under the slogan “Tax the Rich, save the Climate”, some 300 demonstrators from the Swiss Socialist Youth (JUSO) and the association Strike WEF gathered in Davos to demand a climate tax on the super-rich attending the WEF annual meeting. They were joined by activists from Greenpeace and the German town of Lützerath, which has become a climate flashpoint amid plans to expand a coal mine in the area.
Nicola Siegrist, president of JUSO, said that the revenues from the climate tax should be used to support a social climate policy. “The rich must pay, because they are the ones who benefit most from the system that caused the climate crisis,” said Siegrist. The demonstrators also demanded cancelling the debt of countries in the global South.
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“WEF participants represent a system that cannot work. The WEF is dominated by greenwashing, etiquette fraud and empty slogans,” said Gian Wacker, media spokesman for the Strike WEF collective, in a press release. “Behind it is a hard-nosed profit logic. This pursuit of profit is mercilessly carried out on the backs of the community and the climate.”
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