Top business leaders issue an expletive-laced message on the green backlash

[Elderberry]

CNBC by Sam Meredith 1/22/2026

Key Points

•   Top business leaders at the World Economic Forum delivered an expletive-laden message on the green backlash.

•   It comes amid deep concern that businesses are increasingly shying away from climate action.

•   “Now, the United States … have gone hard [for] fossil fuels and kind of made anyone going for renewables feel like they’re woke, they’re not looking after shareholders. Honestly, I’m here to tell all of Davos, that is not correct,” Andrew Forrest, founder of mining giant Fortescue, told CNBC.

Top business leaders this week delivered an expletive-laden plea in defense of climate action, describing the backlash to Europe’s green transition as an “aberration.”

In an interview with CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Allianz

CEO Oliver Bäte said he disagreed with the suggestion that it may just be a matter of time before net zero is dismissed in Europe, saying short-term thinking on this issue is “bulls---.”

Asked about political leaders backtracking on their much-vaunted European Green New Deal and Norway’s oil fund reportedly defending a push from companies to water down their climate goals, Bäte said anyone who has children “will have to worry” about the planet’s future.

“It’s an aberration that short-term people are saying that,” Bäte told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” on Tuesday. “I think it’s about doing it intelligently. And by the way, the role model here is China, they are going to be the leader both in terms of renewable and cost of energy.”

The CEO of Allianz, one of the world’s biggest insurers, said it was integral for business and political leaders to stay the course on necessary energy transition targets.

More: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/22/davos-wef-green-energy-climate-change-trump.html

[DefiantMassRINO]

Nobody asked me if I wanted to pay more money to get less energy for this nonsense.

If you got the money for solar panels or wind turbines, good for you.

I want to retain the options that keep heat and electricity more affordable for everyone.

I want the option to choose affordable oil, natural gas, wood, or electricity for heat.

I want utilities to have the option to generate electricity with nuclear, coal, natural gas, oil, hyrdo, solar, wind, and geothermal to increase electricity supply at lower cost.

The rich bastards in Davos can afford to pay more, the rest of us can't.  Nobody elected the elites.  Nobody held public referendum votes for this nonsense.  They used their wealth, status, access, and proximity to power to bypass democratic process and impose this upon the masses without their consent.

Those gathered in Davos are the modern aristocracy making the rules for the serfs on their manors.

Oligrachy is modern day Feudalism.

[Free Vulcan]

These guys can't even make a case make a case for their position, they're just going to scream it in our faces and strong arm the world.

In past times that kind of thing would have resulted in a dirt nap.

Notice also how they BS their way around China, who's all in for fossil fuels.

[Kamaji]

These guys can't even make a case make a case for their position, they're just going to scream it in our faces and strong arm the world.

In past times that kind of thing would have resulted in a dirt nap.

Notice also how they BS their way around China, who's all in for fossil fuels.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

The CEO of Allianz, one of the world’s biggest insurers, said it was integral for business and political leaders to stay the course on necessary energy transition targets

Good to know so I can ensure to steer away from this company

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

These guys just stand to profit from this garbage. Don't trust the green capitalists.

[Smokin Joe]

These guys just stand to profit from this garbage. Don't trust the green capitalists.

Yep.
From...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortescue_(company)

In late 2004 and early 2005, Fortescue chairman and then-CEO Andrew Forrest made a series of announcements that Fortescue had entered into "binding agreements" with three significant Chinese state-owned entities to build and finance infrastructure for the company.[41][42] The Australian Securities & Investments Commission took legal action against FMG and Forrest. Although an initial ruling by Justice John Gilmour[43] in 2009 found Forrest hadn't acted in a misleading or deceptive manner,[44] Chief Justice Patrick Keane and judges Arthur Emmett and Raymond Finkelstein of the Federal Court of Australia[45] overturned this decision in 2011, finding that FMG and its chairman and CEO, Andrew Forrest, had engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct and breached the continuous disclosure provisions in the Corporations Act, 2001,[46] by claiming to have binding contracts with China.[44]

Turns out it's just a 'framework' not necessarily "binding contracts", but their ore hauling ships on the ways are being built in China...

One hand washes the other.

[roamer_1]

Oligrachy is modern day Feudalism.

That's closer than you know - It's always been about the restoration of feudalism - Ever since the Magna Carta brought forth the middle class (for the first time ever in history). They want the lordship back. All the money in the world means nothing if you can't lord it over everybody. And they think that's their right. By blood.

[Bigun]

That's closer than you know - It's always been about the restoration of feudalism - Ever since the Magna Carta brought forth the middle class (for the first time ever in history). They want the lordship back. All the money in the world means nothing if you can't lord it over everybody. And they think that's their right. By blood.

Hear here! That is EXACTLY why Alexander Hamilton, and his ilk began undermining our constitution before the ink was dry!

[roamer_1]

Hear here! That is EXACTLY why Alexander Hamilton, and his ilk began undermining our constitution before the ink was dry!

That's right.