Essay by Eric Worrall
Who are these people who are not part of society?
How organizations can harness employee power for climate goals
Oct 7, 2022
Holly Teal
Senior Director, Client Management, WTW
- Previous social movements in the United States have shown that employees can significantly impact and drive change.
- Employees can also drive progress towards climate goals by insisting on a clear strategy for climate change from their employers.
- Employers can provide ways for employees to engage in reducing carbon emissions and other environmental work to help stave off climate change.
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Businesses can harness the power of their employees to solve the enormous challenges they face from climate change. Not only is it the right thing to do, but it’s also just good business. In a competitive talent market, we know that many employees seek organizations with a purpose beyond improving the bottom line. In light of the pandemic and social justice movement, people are taking stock of what’s important to them.
The reality is that the world is nowhere near achieving the United Nations’ target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius or less. Scientists have been sending warnings about the challenge for decades, but society hasn’t listened.
People want action from their governments and companies. So, it’s up to employers to inspire action inside the workforce and communities, as many employers did during the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Read more: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/how-organizations-can-harness-employee-power-for-climate-goals/ (backup pdf)
The World Economic Forum has some interesting ideas about society and the future, like their famous Great Reset, in which “you’ll own nothing and be happy“. So I’d love to read or hear their explanation of why they appear to believe society doesn’t include ordinary people, like employees of companies.
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Thanks, Eric, that made me laugh!
Regards,
Bob Tisdale
My first thought was someone should check the water cooler in Holly’s office…
Bob, I’m sure that, to the WEF, society is made up of clods like me. Cheap air travel messed up the elites flying experience (even in 1st Class) such that they all now own private jets.
WEF = We Eat Flies.
WEF = We Eat Filet Mignon
Should be renamed YEF.
YEF = You people Eat Flies
“Society hasn’t Listened. “
Society has very real problems to deal with. The WEF isn’t a fan of democracy, quite the contrary.
That sounds a lot like the discussion of a green politician in Switzerland:
“Everybody wants to have bio-food”. When you go to the supermarket, the often poor quality bio-vegetables and bio-fruits are available in a small corner, and practically no one buys them. These people are really fantastic (/sarc). They’re capable of reading minds and know de facto what “everybody” wants…
You can eat bugs while the Davos crowd eats steak.
You will own nothing, be happy and freeze to death.
The employer can always suggest that his employees use bicycles to and from from work.
He will provide racks for their cycles.
Michael VK5ELL
A son of mine who does not own a car and has been cycling for 25 years has found this a real pain if not impossible in the really bad weather while working over the past decade in Switzerland and Germany.
On the positive side, he’s probably saved a lot of money and is in good physical health as well. Depending on circumstances, Uber can be a reliable alternative when it is needed.
Personally, I like to have the freedom that accompanies vehicle ownership. It is a freedom that the WEF crowd frowns upon.
If you’re single and your life consists of traveling to and from work for a short distance in an urban area, then fine. You don’t need a vehicle. If that is not your life then the WEF can shove it. There are way too many guns in the US for them to push their BS here. And their attempts to sidestep the 2nd Amendment will not work.
Michael, does your son have a family with him?
And if not, how does such an approach apply to a society with any future?
No family or this would be impossible.
A lot of activists, even “bicycle activists”, believe other people should ride their bicycles to work as a public service but have little interest themselves in doing so. They always have an excuse….
I say this as a life-long non-competitive enthusiast who really did ride my bike to work all year round in wintry Ontario because I enjoyed it. And yes it saved money and kept me young, even though we still had two cars. But I readily accept that this is not practical or desirable for most workers. Keeping a bicycle operating reliably in bad weather so it will always be mission-available in the morning is more demanding of time and attention than a motor vehicle requires. And you can’t carry much more than your lunch and your phone.
The distance to work determines how many layers are needed. Cycling layers are not cheap.
Thinking back on my bike crashes, all involved poor surface conditions and about 2/3 involved ice/snow. There are several reasons not to bike when it’s close to or below freezing.
Knock on wood, I haven’t crashed in over a year. Got a new bike with bigger wheels and I’ve slowed down, particularly around curves.
Bikes don’t work at all in a foot of snow. 4X4 Truck will get it done.
4×4 in a foot of snow? Good luck!, Maybe a Powerwagon with chains front and back, so long as the ground isn’t frozen or has a layer of ice under the snow.
Never drove a 4×4, have you?
Beg to differ I have driven both my bicycle and my motorbike in deep snow with no issues 🙋♂️ 😊 Other than a little chilly
Before WWII the industry’s workers used bikes to go to work whichever was the distance and the weather conditions. Their dearest hope was to purchase a car and spare their time and their health to enjoy more leisure periods, an aim they could reach by the early fifties.
Now the greenies are requiring them back riding their bikes.
Too many Moron on a bike ruining and cluttering the road and diverting money from real needs
One just careened out of control and knocked the mirror off my car and put a crease in the metal. $2100 damage because of an idiot who couldn’t control his e-bike.
Doesn’t bio-food need a lot of dung from methane belching cows, and battery chickens? Just asking for a friend.
Reminds me of Yogi Berra saying about a restaurant: “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.”
Delete the WEF. A damned good start.
Society HAS listened, we just haven’t heard anything worthwhile. We don’t want action on climate change, we want affordable energy, security and well-paying jobs, oh and for scientists to stop screaming in our ears about non-problems for a change.
Action on “climate change” …. WTH is that !!
Absolutely NOTHING they put forward as “climate action” (whatever that is !) will make the slightest difference to purely natural climate variability.
Sorry WEF twerps….. nobody cares what you want, so go buy some concrete boots and take a jump off the nearest pier.
The saying is ‘Take a long walk on a short pier.’
Society has listened to what the WEF and the paid Media have been saying. Society has said thanks for the ideas but we won’t be doing any of that thank you.
Society has been telling its political class to stop listening to hypocrites like the WEF and various foundations paid to advance deindustrialisation.
It is the political class who are not listening. If they had been getting the message then we would not have the Biden nonsense to contend with of the unelected UN leaders that are only too happy to go visit a South Pacific Island or two, all fully expensed you understand, to see for themselves how damaging the Climate Change is. So far they have not found any evidence but they are determined to keep looking and will return year after year on their spot the changes mission.
The expansion of hotels and airport facilities to accommodate the interested visitors to such paradise locations is tantamount to the immediate existential risk these places are expecting…..
Everybody wants to go to Fiji, including Izzy and her mum.
Izzy said her mum forced her to go. I’m sure she was dragged there kicking and screaming.
So Holly Teal equates the WTW tactics to that of Black Lives Matter? The whole upper echelon founders of BLM, according to several news reports, are being investigated for diversion of funds into personal use, like buying houses and cars and vacations.
BLM– Buy Large Mansions!
BLANK LOOKS MATTER — Let’s Go Brandon!
Blank Looks Mutter?
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
― Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time
Civil rights movement, environmental protection, climate change, police reform (BLM & Marxism), social justice movement (intersectionality), women’s rights, disabled people rights & etc.
BLM skipped steps one and two.
nailed it. 😎
Society did listen, however, WEF <b>never</b> mentions the taxpayers cost for solving this non-problem. That is because WEFers live in their own bubble.
Society has Listened. People see through the BS.
Not enough people, yet.
That’s ‘YOU’ LL own nothing and WE’LL be happy’.
JF
Should be my first chuckle of the day, but it’s not because it’s spot on.
Can I steal it? A nice pic of Klaus Schwab with the Caption:
“You will own nothing and We will be happy”
Duh!!!
You will own zip &
I will be happy
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
“People Want Action”? The truth is, people are fed up with this sick bs!
They have just misread what action the people want.
People will want pitchforks and torches soon if these idiots keep it up!
Body armor and AR15s.
WTW = Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company is a British-American multinational insurance advisor company. The company was founded in 2016, following a merger of the Willis Group and Towers Watson. Wikipedia
Here’s the WTW Blog Post from Holly Teal
Here’s another LINK if you want to know more about WTW Seems they are big into ESG. (Environment Social Government) investing.
They have 40,000 employees. Their Koolade supplier must be making a fortune.
Caroline Lucas hasn’t stopped telling us, she seldom holds her tongue
“Energy crisis? It isn’t that we have too little oil and gas. It’s that we have too much
Caroline Lucas
We have green, cheap alternatives ready and waiting “
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/07/energy-crisis-it-isnt-that-we-have-too-little-oil-and-gas-we-have-too-much-lucas
Which is why sales of chainsaws and wood burners have shot right up
If she keeps on yelling about some kind of ‘betrayal’ by the government she might find the government will push back. She ain’t in Kansas anymore.
Isn’t “society” people, the general public?
You’d think so, wouldn’t you? When these useless idiots talk about ‘society’ they mean the plebs that agree or go along with them; the faithful and the indoctrinated. To them the rest are the surplus population that needs to be eliminated for their ‘society’ to work as they think it should.
The other people are known as “deplorables”. In America, it’s that pesky Bill Of Rights that keep them so deplorable.
UN official at WEF: ‘We own the science & we think that the world should know it’ so ‘we partnered with Google’ to ensure only UN climate results appear – Watts Up With That?
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An inside look at the WEF’s plans for our countries – not just Canada and the USA: All! The two big Control scams are Climate and Covid, and neither ever made any sense.
The Climate-and-Green-Energy scam was a blatant fraud from the start ~50 years ago… We told you so 20 years ago.
In reality, the Covid-19 “Emergency” was not a real emergency – it was a deliberate international scam and the quality data supports this conclusion. This totalitarian scam was already in progress with Climate as the primary driver, and then along came Covid-19, a relatively mild flu that only killed the very elderly and infirm, and Covid was enlisted as a second front for the wolves to stampede the sheep.
…Covid-19, a relatively mild flu…
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I finally got Covid this past September 2nd. Several days of coughing up stuff and still a lingering cough. However it caused some other health issues to become apparent and I got to see the inside of a hospital room for three days. Took about a month to finally test negative Four other family members have also come down with it, and a description of mild flu would be appropriate.
By the way, food tastes bland now. Probably a permanent result.
Steve,
For an adult take 12 mg/day of Ivermectin in a single daily dose for 10 days – should clear up Covid-19 and also “long Covid” after-effects – if not, take IVM for another 5-10 days. This is a very low dose that seems to work – some physicians recommend much more mg per day.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2022/10/07/bill-gates-admits-he-was-personally-involved-bidens-inflation-reduction-act-will-funnel-737-billion-into-gates-funded-projects/
People want action from their companies and governments.
The dooming propaganda has worked so naturally that’s what they want now. Biz and Gummint to get on with all the cheap energy from Gaia at no cost to them. The problem arises when the doomsters can’t deliver and all they get is resultant monetary inflation unaffordable power bills and electric cars plus greenouts. Fat chance of coming out and being honest that they really had to dig deep so the big lie and the inflationary money printing continues.
A belief/claim in diametric opposition to every rational survey/poll, where people are questioned about using their own money to combat whatever the current climate propaganda claims fed to complicit news services.
People want their governments to cease their fabricated delusions, back off and stop wasting taxpayer funds while explicitly mandating EV and renewable energy use.
To let market forces bring solutions when industry overcomes EV/renewable energy’s abundant technology deficits/weaknesses.
So “society hasn’t listened”, but “people want action.” Isn’t society and the people one and the same?
Yes, some people want action on climate change, but globally they are a tiny minority and are mostly well off Western lefties.
The majority of the people, or society, could not give a rat’s furry backside about alleged anthropogenic climate change, they are too busy worrying about important issues.
When they say “people want action” they mean Western elites and the gullible portion of the Western democracies want action. Everybody else in the world, not so much.
Yes. People “want action” on “climate change”, but don’t know how to go about it (despite decades-long and ever-increasing haranguing), so need employers to “inspire” them, and presumably “show them how”. Like, for example, turning off lights when not using them, and recycling. Like those childishly naieve feel-good virtue-signaling actions haven’t been kicked around forever. Give me a break.
“Who are these people who are not part of society?”
Oh that’s easy…..the WEF.
Canada bunged WEF a $100m just recently. Is there no accountability anywhere?
Why would a government give money to rich people to hold a confab? I guess there are also propaganda campaign costs.
‘So, it’s up to employers to inspire action inside the workforce and communities, as many employers did during the Black Lives Matter movement.‘
BLM? Maybe suitably inspired employees could burn down their places of employment, starting with the NGOs and any private entity that ascribes to this nonsense.