Date: February 8, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 19 Comments
BY MICHAEL SLOVANOS
THE World Economic Forum is not giving up on it’s fraudulent campaign of touting so-called “young indigenous leaders” as being the front-line troops in the fight against their phantom “climate crisis”.
The New Zealand “indigenous” representative Peter-Lucas Jones has the looks of a gay man and apparently has a percentage of Maori DNA in his family tree. He is CEO of a government/corporate funded non-profit Maori language media company called Te Hiku Media.
And then there’s another very white looking indigenous man (with the tie in the main photo) named Justin Langan from Canada, who is a journalist and identifies with the “Metis People”, whoever they are. Langan is also described as a “global shaper”, whatever that is.
Jones and Langan are among the WEF’s young chosen ones. “Our people have experience language loss, cultural decline and the exploitation of our resources, and if we don’t have digital real estate in the digital age, we will be landless there too,” he Jones says on a WEF video, adding it’s a problem for his tribe, all Maori and other indigenous people.
The many thousands of NZ Maoris living regular lives away from their homeland in Australia might disagree, or shrug their shoulders. Many bring their culture with them, others may make do with a new life.
The problem for Jones is that he, like most New Zealanders and Australians who identify as “indigenous”, has mixed blood. Probably more than half of his DNA is from Europe, so does that make his claim to be indigenous only half-true?
The entire notion of this global indigenous movement, therefore, is somewhat spurious. Every person, black, white, brown or olive, can trace their ancestry back to an original location or homeland. But the idea becomes even more absurd when a person with English heritage born in New Zealand or Australia is not considered indigenous.
It is widely agreed that “indigenism” in reality is neo-Marxist identity politics where “oppressed minorities”, usually race or gender-based, are championed as the New Class and placed via DEI policy into privileged positions of power and influence by reason of their oppressed status. This “institutional injustice” must necessarily be “corrected” by the progressive state.
We saw the outworking of this in the Biden Democrat administration, that placed transgender people in high positions in the US health and defence bureaucracies. The Trump counter-revolution, very radically, has given DEI in US federal government the boot.
So, our Kiwi WEF fellow is possibly doubly privileged because of his oppressed LGBTQ + indigenous status. He’s not only CEO of a media non-profit, but also a representative of the WEF’s indigenous “climate justice” brigade.
The philosophy behind the “indigenism” promoted by the WEF and the UN, is that the established English language of New Zealand, for instance, is “colonialist” and therefore an imposition and type of “cultural genocide” that should be actively countered. And if you can’t speak the language, tough luck.
The “indigenists” seem to believe that if they could start their own state tomorrow, English language and culture would be banned and the rest of the world can basically go jump because they will have found their ultimate purpose in life, speaking the native language of their ancestors.
Admittedly that is a bit of an exaggeration, because the “indigenists” have a global network (which apparently excludes white-skinned Anglo-Celts), whose existence and role has been written down and defined by the United Nations, a group of supposedly wise persons situated in the heart of one of the great centres of western civilization, New York.
The UN “wise persons” have written down a prescribed, standardized action plan for indigenous peoples worldwide in their UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). The presumption is that all indigenous people were or still are oppressed by colonial, mostly white-skinned, people from Europe.
These colonial oppressors would be English, French, German, Dutch, Belgian and Spanish – all nations which at some time in their past had colonies. But now these colonialists have been made aware of their past sins against the indigenous innocents and are now being replaced in their own nations by mostly dark-skinned immigrants.
In the glorious “New World Order” envisaged the WEF and UN, an indigenous elite will supposedly emerge to manage the planet in “sustainable” ways because these indigenous people are, as Justin Langan says “inherently connected to the land”. Apparently your average white guy isn’t. There are some s awfully racist assumptions in this indigenist movement.
Meanwhile WEF propaganda asserts that “Collective action (of course) is essential to keep the world on track to meet the Paris Agreement targets by 2030 – and there’s still hope and possibility.”
It goes on to explain “why Gim Huay Neo is optimistic about climate action – from new Forum initiatives on climate and nature to a groundswell of support from business. Oh goody, sponsorship money is on the way!
And then there’s the creation of the Kivu-Kinshasa Green Corridor Congo, announced at Davos 2025. “It aims to restore and protect 540,000km² of land across the entire Congo basin, creating jobs, sustainable tourism, agriculture and clean energy,”
We wonder whether that will happen before, during or after the latest potentially genocidal war between Congolese, rebel and Rwandan fighters.
And then there’s the “marine biologist and master storyteller who explains how mass action can reverse the ocean’s declining prospects. Sure, we can all save the ocean if we use paper straws!
The WEF says this all because “2024 was the hottest on record, while January saw California’s worst natural disaster as wildfires ripped through Los Angeles. The risk of collapse of natural ecosystems threatens lives and livelihoods, but climate action is continuing in the face of adversity.”
Oh shock! Oh horror! Just how did we survive that incredibly hot 2024, as our grass and forests shriveled, as water reservoirs turned to dust and people fainted in the streets?
But be assured folks, the folks at this year’s Davos gathering talked about how we can balance energy security and sustainability and “global leaders explored how the energy transition could deliver both”.
Not only that, “indigenous leaders from across the planet came together in Davos to share their knowledge on climate change and address the solutions. Watch here.“
And don’t forget COP30 in November 2025, that “will mark a decade since the Paris Agreement was adopted”. The WEF invites all Cairns News readers to listen to this Agenda Dialogue podcast of the Davos session ‘Road to COP30’.
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