FINAL PREPARATIONS FOR DAVOS

Episode 45 in the Lymp Duhdashian series

Frank put on his black suit, shoes, shades, Trilby hat and Crombie overcoat, briefly checked himself over in the mirror, grabbed his overnight bag and kissed Diamond goodbye. It was 7am precisely. He had left her a video to watch on her laptop screen. “Watch that video, right?” he said, as he went down the stairs to the underground car park. “I will, I promise!” came the response as he disappeared from her sight. Diamond physically sank. She really did not want to see him leave. It made her feel queasy. She shook it off as best she could and went to the laptop and pressed play on the video:
» https://www.bitchute.com/video/VJJAyLuzqqdM/

Max Igan didn’t help her mood much.

Olympia turned up at 9am as if she was arriving for a day in the office but this time Diamond was really glad she did that. She let the sob, which was growing in her throat, escape and Olympia hugged her tightly. “He’ll be alright, Dim! It’s only Davos - he isn’t jumping out of a helicopter into a warzone!” but Diamond was shaking her head. “Watch that video on my laptop, Lymp! That is what he knows…. and he is at risk because he KNOWS IT!”

Olympia was already there, planning to make some more editing tweaks to her speech. Her slot for delivery at Davos was scheduled for Wednesday 18th January and she intended it to be perfect. She watched the video, to appease Diamond and warmed to Max Igan, even if the message he was giving was so grim that it would freeze the soul. The Technocracy article he recommended confirmed her worst suspicions.

“It’ll be over by next Friday!” she promised Diamond “And we have so much more to look forward to, if our plan succeeds!” She helped herself to a large mug of coffee from Frank’s dispensary in the lounge. “I love this idea!” she said, gesturing to the bar/coffee shop arrangement he had installed. “Have you heard from Pru?” and Diamond nodded. “Pru and Dave are working on the SeaSwan all weekend, apparently.” Olympia twinkled as an excited buzz wriggled its way up her spine. “Excellent!” she said and found some calming music to play in the background while she edited her speech for the 3rd time.

Khan was running around Kensington Park listening to music from home. He never admitted to being homesick for Mexico but he was, especially when London gave him grey and cold, wet and windy weather. No wonder the Brits are so tight-lipped he thought, they must be afraid that their teeth will freeze! And he chuckled at the idea. He was looking forward to seeing Switzerland on Monday, but had been warned that, although it is less grim than England, it is much colder due to the altitude.

Olympia had arranged for them to fly to Davos by private jet with Tarkie and a couple of friends who were attending the World Economic Forum conference. Tarkie was to make sure he got some good photos of Olympia for Instagram and Tiktok. Tarkie had jumped at the chance and planned to sell the best of his photos to the press, who would be sure to need them as soon as they got wind of Olympia’s speech.

Tarkie tweeted an article, tagging Olympia, which she spotted immediately:

https://www.archyde.com/private-jet-to-davos-to-talk-about-climate-shameless-abroad/

“Ooh this is useful!” she trilled to herself and she read some of it aloud to Diamond.

“Combating climate change will be one of the big talking points at the World Economic Forum (WEF) next week. However, some of the participants from politics and business travel there in the least sustainable way: by private jet.

During the previous summit, more than a thousand private planes flew to the airports in the vicinity of Davos, Switzerland, where the conference is being held. That is twice as many as normal, according to research bureau CE Delft.

Commissioned by Greenpeace, the independent agency made an analysis of the flight movements around the WEF of May 2021. The researchers compared the number of flights with private jets from seven airports in the area with normal weeks. They attribute about five hundred flights to conference attendees. Because some of the aircraft came from far away, the total emissions were more than four times higher than in an average week.

Based on the distances flown to and from Davos and the type of aircraft, CE Delft calculated how much CO2 was emitted. In the week of the conference, this amounted to 9.7 kilotonnes. That’s equivalent to the emissions of 35,000 average cars driving from Paris to Davos and back, the report’s authors note. In average weeks, the combined emissions of private jets using the seven airports amount to about 2.3 kilotons.”

The Duhdashian sisters were amused by this because apparently, Klaus Schwab claimed that the regular gathering in Davos was ‘carbon neutral’ due to his efforts to ensure that fake meat and sustainable renewable energy was available at the venues and hotels! How his guests travelled was nothing to do with him, of course!
[https://www.euronews.com/2020/01/17/nine-things-davos-2020-is-doing-to-be-carbon-neutral]

“If that old codger imagines that Khan and I will eat insect burgers and lab grown steak, he is sadly mistaken!” Laughed Olympia, “I would rather starve!” Diamond worried that Frank might not realise what he was offered at the conference and texted him to “avoid the dodgy looking meat”. Frank texted back within a minute to say “Diamond, honey, I have been to Davos before, you know? I eat at a good Chinese restaurant and I have full English breakfast at the digs! No worries ❤”

Olympia and Diamond exchanged happy smiles. Their plans were progressing so well that Olympia just had to say “How hard can it be?”