Celebrity sightings may have been scarce, but the annual gathering of the world’s most powerful people in Davos still managed to wrap its air of serious debate in a sheen of glamour.
For all the grave talk about the dangers of climate change at the four-day meeting of corporate and political leaders, petrol-guzzling limousines and SUVs remained the transport mode of choice for the vast majority of participants.
For the really “serious money,” the road was left behind altogether in favour of a helicopter entry and departure to the small ski resort high in the Swiss Alps.
If hypocrisy was currency, they’d be rich beyond comprehension.
[tags]global warming, do as I say not as I do[/tags]