David Attenborough talked about the urgency needed to tackle climate change in Davos (Switzerland), but he could not convince his audience. Many private jets landed in Davos with the ‘elite’ from around the world. They would lecture the masses about the fact that they are more worried than ever about climate change. What? Climate change versus rich and famous globally, that's what it is!
Climate Change Versus Rich And Famous: Tax Heavens
So a great amount of privileged enjoys unlimited wealth while many lack basic resources. While inequality is part of life, it is the scale, the high levels of worrying. One of the reasons is that the rich and wealthy get tax benefits and, worse, don’t pay tax in countries with businesses. Also, there are tax-heavens. Maybe the last is in a certain way legal at least; it is unethical.
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Environmental Issues Versus Philanthropic Organisations
In combination with environmental issues on a large scale, billions of people don’t get what they are entitled to. Often you see these elite starting their philanthropic organizations to offer some relief to pressing issues. Simultaneously, if they would pay their employees a healthy salary and pay taxes the way it should in the countries where it belongs, the problems would be much less. This way, the philanthropic organization would hardly be necessary.
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Mr. Rutger Bregman (historian and author of Utopia for Realists; How We Can Build the Ideal World: from the Netherlands, criticized the event in Davos for its focus on philanthropy rather than tax avoidance the need for fair taxation to reduce poverty.
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By: Hans van der Broek
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