Fergus Finlay: Davos is a talking shop that does nothing to help people in dire need

They arrive in private jets to bleat about climate change or 'co-operation' — then they go home and nothing changes

Climate activists Greta Thunberg of Sweden, Vanessa Nakate of Uganda, Helena Gualinga of Ecuador, and Luisa Neubauer of Germany demonstrate among others at a climate protest at the World Economic Forum in Davos.  Picture: Markus Schreiber/AP

It crops up once a year, that word. You don’t hear it the rest of the time, but suddenly it’s all over the news. It somehow, for no reason I can determine, seems really important. And it makes my gorge rise. It sends shivers down my spine. 

I don’t do hate often, but I hate that word, probably more than any other word I know. It is redolent with hypocrisy, complacency, all the cant in the world.