DAVOS (Dagbladet): Politikerforakt and the people’s deep distrust of the elite.
It is not the message many of the world’s richest and most powerful waiting to hear when they arrive globaliseringsfesten in Davos in Switzerland this week.
Yet there was the central message during the election campaign to Brazil’s fresh president, Jair Bolsonaro (63), which today held the opening speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.
Populisten went into the election on promises to fight corruption and restore law and order in Brazil, but was never particularly specific when he talked about how he would solve the immense challenges in the country.
“Tropenes Trump” is Brazil’s new president. Here are the statements that make him so controversial – the gates of Hell are opened
With threats about throwing political opponents in jail, the open rhetorical attacks on homosexuals and members of Brazil’s LGBT-movement, disparaging comments about women, rage against the refugees – who he refers as “the earth’s scum” and policies that are met with tordentaler from environmental organizations all over the world, also follows the nickname “Tropenes Trump”.
In June 2011, he said that he would be unable to love a gay son, and that he “would rather that his son should die in a car accident than to be gay”, according to the New York Times.
In 2013 he had a a new linguistic picture of the stock, when he said that he “would rather have a son who is drug addict, than a son who is gay”, and leave at the same time that he is “proud to be homophobic”.
the LGBT community in Brazil has previously warned that Bolsonaros stated homophobia has led to a new era of brutality, threats and attacks against homosexuals.
– It is as if the gates of hell have been opened. It is as if it has been declared jaktsesong, said Beto de Jesus, founder of the Sao Paulo annual homoparade, when it was clear that Bolsonaro had won the election.
the Stench from the outer right Comment Deforestation
Bolsonaros the stated goal of the climate policy in the country of origin is particularly interesting seen with Norwegian eyes. Regnskogbevaring in Brazil has for a long number of years been one of the hovedsatsingene in Norway’s climate policy.
on Tuesday, says 63-year-old, with mellomnavnet the Messiah, in front of significant portions of the world’s economic and political elite, where he will carry a message that there now is a new Brazil enters the arena.
In the likeness with Donald Trump in Davos one year ago, he went straight in the throats of the critics.
PRESIDENT: Brazil’s fresh president Jair Bolsonaro spoke Tuesday during WEF in Davos. Photo: & # Wiegmann / Reuters / NTB Scanpix Show more
– We are the country in the world that do the most to preserve the environment. Agriculture does not occur on more than nine per cent of our lands, he said, and added:
the Critics still have much to learn. We want the world to rebuild the trust they always had for us.
He does not hide that he wants to open up larger parts of the Amazon rainforest for economic gain, and said that nature conservation must not get in the way of financial gain.
” You should not put more weight on one than the other.
– It is now our mission to make progress in harmonising the miljøbevarelse and biological diversity, with the much-needed economic development, he added.
– the Enormous destruction
Bolsonaros speech in Davos came right after the british prince William and Sir David Attenborough (92) held an extended conversation, on the same stage, about what is required to save the world from climate change in general and how to preserve the rain forest in Brazil.
the Mechanisms we have for destruction is so powerful, that we can wipe out the entire ecosystem, without that we all are aware of it, ” said Attenborough.
CHALLENGES IN the QUEUE: the British prince William and Sir David Attenborough held Tuesday a conversation about the challenges that are standing in line to save the world from climate change elitensom are gathered in Davos. Photo: & # Wiegmann / Reuters / NTB Scanpix Show more
The world-renowned cohost then got questions from prince William about why it is so important that world leaders work together to save the climate.
– Parisavtalen was a recognition from nations around the world that humankind and the earth are dependent on each other. They saw the destruction we have inflicted on the planet, through increased temperatures, and realized that we must do something. If we fail to live up to the goals in the Parisavtalen, so we can avert major damage on earth.
He came so with a statement which can hardly be interpreted as anything other than a small prick to certain members of the same elite that is represented in Davos.
Nedsnødd elite Comment
I must add that the (Parisavtalen, ed.anm.) not universally recognized. People have been talking about to withdraw from the agreement, but the majority have committed themselves to work to reach the goals, he said.
U.s. president Donald Trump has as you know withdrawn the united STATES from Parisavtalen. Bolsonaro has also threatened to take Brazil out of the Parisavtalen, something he later has gone back on.
– What does it mean?
Several critics have advocated that Bolsonaro should not get a speech in front of world class in Davos.
This is a very concrete example of the battles WEF stands in the middle of. They have a motto which reads “committed to improving the state of the world”. But what does it really mean?
Will the Amazon survive Bolsonaro? Debate
The rhetorical question comes from Gideon Rachman, veteran commentator for the newspaper the Financial Times. When the Newspaper meet him, he has even just talked with Attenborough.
He just said the Amazon is crucial for the planet’s health. At the same time was one of the first things Bolsonaro did as president to abolish the ministry that fits on the urbefolkningens reserves. It has instead been put under the ministry of agriculture, which is not exactly suggesting an effort to preserve the rainforest, he says to Dagbladet.
COMMENTATOR: Gideon Rachman, veteran commentator for the newspaper the Financial Times. Photo: World Economic Forum Show more
During the campaign notified høyreradikale Bolsonaro that he would stop government payments to NGOS, which Amazonasfondet, if he became president. Before the summit in Davos notified Bolsonaro that he is going to make sure that the international community restore its confidence in Brazil.
the Speech on Tuesday was the president’s first to an international audience, since he took presidentstolen 1. January of this year.
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Statements he has made on home soil are in full klinsj with the stated goal of this year’s summit in Davos, where the theme is “Globalization, version 4.0”.
last year, spoke Trump here. Now is the Bolsonaro, who more or less identifies itself as South America’s Trump. He has said that he sees Trump as a role model, and Trump administration has expressed support for him. On a whole range of foreign policy questions, he has taken steps based on the ideological stance that also Trump has taken. It is done to create rage on the left wing, ” says Rachman.
Trump’s comment was met with buing in Davos
The motto of the WEF is to “improve the world’s condition”. Centrally located during this year’s summit is climate challenges and the rise of populism and protectionism – all things Bolsonaro stands at the opposite end of the.
Rachman believes elitemøtet in Davos makes himself an easy target for ridicule and criticism, but is, nevertheless, clear that he believes it is positive that people like Bolsonaro get speech.
– Even if the criticism is entirely deserved in a few areas, so it is important that they continue to try to incorporate other themes than we’re used to, and also with other groups of people to think over these important issues, he believes.
HELP the WORLD: the Founder of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, pictured in front of the WEF-the motto “committed to improving the state of the world”. Photo: & # Wiegmann / Reuters / NTB Scanpix Show more Can not be frozen out
WEF reports that the fourth industrial revolution is moving at a speed and a scale that framtvinger a completely new phase in the global cooperation. In the program for this year’s summit, states that it is critical that leaders think “past it as the short term institutional and national concerns.”
Can populisten Bolsonaro, who like Trump has promoted an agenda of their home country first, set the tone during this year’s forum? That is the question many of this year’s participants stood before the speech.
I don’t think it is possible to get turned him. But I think rather not, it would be especially productive to freeze him out from this environment. It is possible to soften him up a bit, ” says Rachman and add:
I also think Bolsonaro will discover that there is a world outside of Donald Trump. He won an election to be Brazil’s Trump, but there are powerful people in the world, the leaders of both companies and the authorities, which will not be kindly inclined to his message.
– A family reunion for the people who destroyed the world