{"id":422280,"date":"2026-01-20T16:42:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=422280"},"modified":"2026-01-20T16:42:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:42:45","slug":"world-economic-forum-elites-should-focus-on-economics-not-climate-change-climate-change-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=422280","title":{"rendered":"World Economic Forum Elites Should Focus on Economics, Not Climate Change, Climate Change News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Climate Realism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Linnea Lueken<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A recent article at Climate Change News discussing this week\u2019s 2026 World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland worries that climate change is no longer a high priority for the attending global elites, while also attempting to reassure readers that the topic hasn\u2019t disappeared entirely. It is true that climate change is dropping on the list of elites\u2019 concerns, but it is not a bad thing. The attendees\u2019 concerns are still wildly out of step with the concerns of average people who are impacted the most by the policies discussed and pushed at Davos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article, titled \u201cAhead of Davos, climate drops down global elite\u2019s list of pressing concerns<\/a>,\u201d was written before the Davos event kicked off Monday, January 19, and focuses on a survey conducted by the WEF\u2019s Global Risks Perception Survey of \u201cexperts\u201d and leaders in advance of the meeting. This year, the survey found that for the first time in years, \u201cclimate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss have dropped down an international ranking of short-term concerns for high-profile business leaders, academics, and politicians,\u201d as priorities shifted towards more concern over \u201ceconomic risks like geoeconomic confrontation, economic downturn, inflation, and asset bubbles bursting.\u201d (See the graph, below, from the WEF).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Considering the organization is the World Economic<\/em> Forum, this shift should never have been necessary in the first place, as economic troubles should have always remained a top priority for these elites. Economics are consistently a concern for everyday people, whereas climate change ranks very low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polling in the United States<\/a> and Europe<\/a> show that climate policies that would impact economic opportunity, like carbon taxes, banning combustion engine vehicles, among others, are broadly unpopular, and that other concerns rank higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ipsos, a market research company the WEF frequently uses, reports in their annual \u201cWhat Worries the World<\/a>?\u201d survey that climate change barely makes the top 10 issues most people in the world are concerned about. (see the graph, below)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Crime and violence is number one, and even immigration ranks above climate change. By contrast, neither of those issues, nor others average folks said they were more concerned about than climate change, made the top 10 concerns in the Davos survey, unless you count the nebulous \u201csocial polarization\u201d category:<\/p>\n\n\n

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In surveys specifically about environmental issues, pollution is one of the top environmental concerns<\/a> for the average person, yet it ranks lowest for Davos attendees, while climate related issues are the elites\u2019 top concern, an exact reversal of the common man\u2019s priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The director of the climate alarmist Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Johan Rockstr\u00f6m, assured readers that \u201cpriorities shift but it doesn\u2019t mean that they\u2019re not interconnected,\u201d and that \u201cto reduce inequality also means providing energy in the cheapest way possible \u2013 and that\u2019s with renewables.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is false, but a common claim from renewables peddlers and climate alarmists. If renewables like wind and solar are cheap, they would not need to be propped up by government subsidies and special aid from global banks. In addition, if they were so cheap, energy prices in places that have invested in renewables the heaviest would not be higher, and rising faster, than in states and countries that still rely primarily on traditional sources of electric power, like coal, hydropower, natural gas, and nuclear. Rockstr\u00f6m may be talking about biomass, which is often classified as a renewable, but burning wood and animal dung for cooking fuel and energy is not a positive in most of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, data show that fossil fuels<\/a> are the most affordable energy sources even with government subsidies giving wind and solar a leg up. Cheapest of all is natural gas, and these resources are also the most reliable, able to work in conditions where wind and solar fail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article and the poll underlying it reinforces the fact that global elites really are disconnected from the concerns of the rest of us, and reality. Scientific data show that climate change is not an existential threat, not to humanity and not to the planet, which even fellow-elite Bill Gates<\/a> recently affirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate Change News and the WEF should get with the program and realize that their concerns do not reflect the needs of the people they are supposed to represent. These business leaders and politicians have an outsized power over the rest of us, and it is worrying that their priorities have long been and remain so out of step with the needs and priorities of the vast bulk of the human population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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