Great Reset

The Great Reset is the name of the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), held in June 2020. It brought together high-profile business and political leaders, convened by the Prince of Wales and the WEF, with the theme of rebuilding society and the economy in a more sustainable way following the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]

"The Great Reset" redirects here. For the 2010 book, see The Great Reset (book).

Klaus Schwab, who founded in WEF in 1971 and is currently its CEO, described three core components of the Great Reset. The first involves creating conditions for a "stakeholder economy"; the second component includes building in a more "resilient, equitable, and sustainable" way—based on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics which would incorporate more green public infrastructure projects. The third component of a Great Reset agenda is to "harness the innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution" for public good.[2][3] In her keynote speech opening the dialogues, International Monetary Fund director Kristalina Georgieva, listed three key aspects of the sustainable response—green growth, smarter growth, and fairer growth.[4][1]

A speech by Prince Charles at the launch event for The Great Reset, listed key areas for action—similar to those listed in his Sustainable Markets Initiative, introduced in January 2020. These included the re-invigoration of science, technology and innovation, a move towards net zero transitions globally, the introduction of carbon pricing, re-inventing longstanding incentive structures, rebalancing investments to include more green investments, and encouraging green public infrastructure projects.[1]

In June 2020 the theme of the January 2021 51st World Economic Forum Annual Meeting was announced as "The Great Reset", connecting both in person and online global leaders in Davos with a multi-stakeholder network in 400 cities around the world.[5] The Great Reset will also be the main theme of the WEF's 2021 summit in Lucerne in May.[6]

According to the New York Times,[1 1] the BBC, The Guardian, Le Devoir, and Radio Canada, "baseless" conspiracy theories spread by American far-right groups linked to QAnon, resurged at the onset of the Great Reset forum and increased in fervor as leaders such as the newly elected U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau[1 2] incorporated ideas based on a "reset" in their speeches.[1 3]

Key components of the great reset

By mid-April 2020, against the backdrop of COVID-19 pandemic, the coronavirus recession, the 2020 stock market crash, and the 2020 Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war and the resulting "collapse in oil prices",[7] Mark Carney—the former Governor of the Bank of England—described possible fundamental changes in a post-covid world in an article in The Economist. Carney said that in a post-COVID world "stakeholder capitalism" will be tested as "companies will be judged by "what they did during the war", how they treated their employees, suppliers and customers, by who shared and who hoarded."[8] The "gulf between what markets value and what people value" will close.[8] In a post-covid world, it is reasonable to expect that more people will want improvements in risk management, in social and medical safety nets, and will want more attention paid to scientific experts. This new hierarchy of values will call for a reset on the way we deal with climate change, which, like the pandemic, is a global phenomenon. No one can "self-isolate" from climate change so we all need to "act in advance and in solidarity".[8] In his 2020 BBC Reith Lectures, Carney further developed the theme of value hierarchies as related to three crises—credit, Covid and climate.[9]

According to a May 15, 2020 WEF article, COVID-19 offers an opportunity to "reset and reshape" the world in a way that is more aligned with the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), as climate change, inequality and poverty gained even greater urgency during the pandemic.[10] This includes resetting labour markets, as more people work remotely speeding up the process of the "future of work". The reset will advance work already begun to prepare for the transition to the Fourth Industrial Revolution by upskilling and reskilling workers.[11] Another post-COVID concern raised by the WEF is food security including the "risk of disruptions to food supply chains", and the need for "global policy coordination" to prevent "food protectionism from becoming the post-pandemic new normal."[12]

In her June 3, 2020 keynote address opening the Great Reset forum —a joint initiative of the WEC and the HRH the Prince of Wales, Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that there has been a "massive injection of fiscal stimulus to help countries deal with this crisis" and that it was of "paramount importance that this growth should lead to a greener, smarter, fairer world in the future".[4][13] Georgieva listed three aspects of the Great Rest—green growth, smarter growth, and fairer growth. Government investments and government incentives for private investors could "support low-carbon and climate-resilient growth" such as "planting mangroves, land restoration, reforestation or insulating buildings."[4] With low oil prices, the timing was right to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies and introduce carbon pricing to incentivize future investments.[4] The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to shape an economic recovery and the future direction of global relations, economies, and priorities.[14]

In June 2020, Klaus Schwab, who founded in World Economic Forum (WEF) in 1971, and is currently its CEO, described the three core components of the Great Reset.[2] The first includes creating conditions for a "stakeholder economy"—improving policies and agreements on taxes, regulations, fiscal policies, and trade to result in "fairer outcomes".[2] The second is component addresses how the large-scale pandemic spending programs with private investments and pension funds, could improve on the old system by building one that is more "resilient, equitable, and sustainable" over the long term by "building green urban infrastructure and creating incentives for industries to improve their track record on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics". The third component of a Great Reset agenda is to "harness the innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution" for the public good.[2] A July 2020 nonfiction by Schwab and economist Thierry Malleret, develops the plan in more detail.[3]

In one of the Great Reset Dialogues John Kerry and other members of a WEF dialogue discussed how to rebuild the "social contract" in a post-COVID world.[15]

According to Prince Charles, the economic recovery must put the world on a path to sustainability which would include carbon pricing. Prince Charles emphasized that the private sector would be the main drivers of the plan.[1] The market should adapt to the current reality by aiming for fairer results, ensuring that investments are aimed at mutual progress including accelerating ecologically friendly investments, and to start a fourth industrial revolution, creating digital economic and public infrastructure.[1]

According to Klaus Schwab, they would not change the economic system, but rather improve it to what he considers to be "responsible capitalism".[1 2]

The Brookings Institute described their three point plan in response to the COVID-19 crisis —Response, Recovery, and Reset. For the near term it involves response; in the medium term this involves "rebuilding economic and social activity in a manner that protects public health, promotes societal healing, and preserves the environment." The reset is for systems over the long term of establishing through our "collective imagination" a great reset—a "new equilibrium among political, economic, social, and environmental systems toward common goals."[16]

Fourth Industrial Revolution
Main article: Fourth Industrial Revolution

Klaus Schwab used the phrase, Fourth Industrial Revolution, in a 2015 article published by Foreign Affairs,[17] and in 2016, the theme of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, was "Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution".[18] In his 2015 article, Schwab said that the first industrial revolution was powered by "water and steam" to "mechanize production". Through electrical power, the second industrial mass production was introduced. Electronics and information technologies automated the production process in the third industrial revolution. In the fourth industrial revolution the lines between "physical, digital, and biological spheres" have become blurred and this current revolution which began with the digital revolution in the mid-1900s, is "characterized by a fusion of technologies."[17] This fusion of technologies included "fields such as artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, 3-D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, materials science, energy storage, and quantum computing."[17]

Just before the 2016 annual WEF meeting of the Global Future Councils, Ida Auken—a Danish MP, who was also a young global leader and a member of the Council on Cities and Urbanization, uploaded a blog post, that was later published by Forbes, imagining how technology could improve our lives by 2030 if the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDG) were realized through this fusion of technologies.[19] Auken imagined how digitized communication, then transportation, accommodation and food would result in greater access and decreased cost. Since everything was free, including clean energy, there was no need to own products or real estate.[19] In her imagined scenario, many of the crises of the early 21st century were resolved—"lifestyle diseases, climate change, the refugee crisis, environmental degradation, completely congested cities, water pollution, air pollution, social unrest and unemployment" through new technologies.[19] The article has been criticized as portraying a utopia at the price of a loss of privacy. In response, Auken said that it was intended to "start a discussion about some of the pros and cons of the current technological development."[20]

While the "interest in Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies" had "spiked" during the COVID-19 pandemic, very few companies—fewer than 9%—were using "machine learning, robotics, touch screens, and other advanced technologies. An October 21, 2020 WEF virtual panel, discussed how organizations could harness fourth revolution technologies.[21] On January 28, 2021 Davos Agenda virtual panel discussed how artificial intelligence (AI) will "fundamentally change the world". Sixty-three percent of CEOs believe that "AI will have a larger impact than the internet."[22]

During 2020, the Great Reset Dialogues resulted in multi-year projects, such as the digital transformation programme where cross-industry stakeholders investigate how the 2020 "dislocative shock" had increased and "accelerated digital transformations".[23] Their report said that, while "digital ecosystems will represent more than $60 trillion in revenue by 2025" "only 9% of executives [in July 2020] say their leaders have the right digital skills".[23]

Endorsements

Political leaders such as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden have endorsed the idea of "building back better", as has UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.[1 4]

Time magazine published a series entitled "The Great Reset: How to Build a Better World Post-COVID-19", which included a collection of articles, columns, talk videos, and interviews.[24]

Canada's response to the Great Reset

In a June 11, 2020 meeting with the Prince of Wales and Permanent Representatives to the United Nations from the Commonwealth of Nations, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, regarding the Great Reset initiative.[25] Trudeau said that the Commonwealth, of which Canada is a member nation-state, provides a space for "dialogue and collective action on global issues related to sustainable development" which includes how to "build back stronger, more resilient, and greener economies" in a post-COVID-19 world.[25] This is inline with similar statements made on May 28, 2020 when Trudeau and Andrew Holness, Jamaica's Prime Minister convened an online meeting of "world leaders and international organizations" to consult on a "global response to the significant economic and human impacts of COVID-19, and advance concrete solutions to the development emergency".[26]

In his August presentation entitled "The Great Reset", at the Victoria Forum 2020, the Governor of the Bank of Canada described how COVID-19 is resulting in a "structural shock with broad impact worldwide".[27] He said that governments, investors in the corporate and financial sector—including central banks, and individuals households, need to evaluate risks and prepare for transitions. He recommended the use of scenario analysis, as a way of describing possible and plausible outcomes as we are faced with a "high degree of uncertainty" in terms of climate change, policy, "technological development", and "evolving consumer and investor preferences".[27]

In a September 29, 2020 6-minute virtual address to the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Trudeau described how "[b]uilding back better" included supporting the most vulnerable, for example by ensuring "equitable access" to COVID-19 vaccine in developing countries, while also working towards reaching the UN's Sustainable Development Goals for 2030.[28][1 2]

The media responded to accusations made by Conservative finance critic MP Pierre Poilievre that Trudeau, who had used the term "reset" in his September UN speech, was "harbouring a very ambitious hidden agenda — not just for Canada but for the world", by saying that the WEF agenda is published on its website.[1 5][1 6] Erin O'Toole, who has been the Leader of the Opposition as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada since August 24, 2020, wrote in a November 21 tweet, "It's hard to believe anyone would look at the carnage caused by COVID-19 and see an opportunity". The message was that "Conservatives want to bring back economic certainty" while Liberals want to "reimagine the economy", which O'Toole described as "a massive and risky experiment."[29] The Post said that Poilievre had launched a petition that gathered 70,000 signatures within 3 days on November 20[1 7] in which he cautioned that the Liberals were secretly planning on "re-engineer[ing] economies and societies to empower the elites at the expense of the people" to remodel Canada to Trudeau's alleged "socialist ideology". Poilievre used phrases from Trudeau's September speech[1 5] to imply that Trudeau's statement that COVID-19 had "provided an opportunity for a reset" to "reimagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty inequality and climate change", was evidence that Trudeau was part of the great reset conspiracy theory, that had been circulating for some time.[1 8][1 9][1 10] The CBC said that the response by the conservative party was "confusing" and that they had started a "phoney war." O'Toole wants to build back stronger and Trudeau wants to build back better. There is not a lot of difference in regards to participation at WEF conferences—former Prime Minister Stephen Harper attended their annual meetings in Davos as often as Trudeau.[1 4]

United States

A January 23, 2021 Financial Times article said that policymakers around the world are anticipating President Biden's "reset on trade, tax and climate."[30] President-elect Joe Biden had announced in November 2020, John Kerry will be appointed as U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate,[31] and Kerry was confirmed in this position on inauguration day, January 20, 2021. Kerry had participated in one of the Great Reset Dialogues on how to rebuild the "social contract" in a post-COVID world.[15][32] Kerry said that COVID-19 offered a "big moment" that opened the possibility for the Great Reset. He said the WEF would play a significant role in refining how to respond to climate change and inequalities that were "laid bare as a consequence of COVID-19."[33] The Heartland Institute's editorial director expressed concerns that President Joe Biden, elected on November 2020 would "bring the Great Reset to the United States" and that "the country [would] never be the same."[33]

Critics of the Great Reset agenda

An article in Forbes said the WEF's Great Reset agenda was "another example of wealthy, powerful elites salving their consciences with faux efforts to help the masses, and in the process make themselves even wealthier and more powerful."[34]

Naomi Klein, in a December 2020 article in The Intercept, described the WEF idea as a "Great Reset Conspiracy Smoothie." She said that it was simply a "coronavirus-themed rebranding" of things that the WEF was already doing and that it was an attempt by the rich to make themselves look good. Klein wrote that Schwab had given each meeting at Davos a theme since 2003. "The Great Reset is merely the latest edition of this gilded tradition, barely distinguishable from earlier Davos Big Ideas."[35]

In his review of 2020 book co-authored by Schwab and Malleret—and the Great Reset agenda in general—Ben Sixsmith, a contributor to the Spectator USA, and Quillette, said that the Great Reset—a set of "bad ideas...adopted internationally by some of the richest and most powerful people in the world"—is "more terrifying" than the "sinister plot"—the conspiracy theory spread by "fringes of Right-Wing Twitter", and James Delingpole, who describes it as a 'global communist takeover plan'.[36][3] Sixsmith described sections of the book as "earnest", glum, dutiful and bland.[36] He questioned the concept of "stakeholder capitalism" as overly vague, allowing "Facebook, IBM, Lockheed Martin et cetera are free to interpret it quite as they wish".[36]

The Great Reset (2021)

The Great Reset will also be the main theme of the WEF's 2021 summit in Lucerne.[6]

Conspiracy theory by the same name

A November 2020 article said that the Great Reset conspiracy theory, was the first in the Presidency of Joe Biden.[1 11] A January 30, 2021 article in The Economist said that the United States has a "rich history of conspiracism, due to its anti-government, apocalyptic religious and entrepreneurial traditions."[1 12] According to the article, 50% of Trump's supporters espoused QAnon "core falsehoods" that Trump was "leading the fight" against a corrupt, global, and high-level "Democratic child-sex operation".[1 12] Trump promoted the QAnon conspiracy which combined a number of "fabrications into a single narrative."[1 12] With the COVID-19 pandemic combined with presidential election, the "far-reaching and baseless QAnon conspiracy" has spread worldwide. Adherents believe they are an "embattled minority"—the only ones that "know 'the truth'." Main stream media outlets such as The New York Times, the BBC, and The Guardian traced the spread of the latest conspiracy theory on the great reset, which had integrated the anti-lockdown conspiracies, to far-right internet personalities and groups—some also supporting the QAnon conspiracy theory—including Candace Owens, Glenn Beck, Fox News' Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson.[1 10][1 13][1 3][37] and by Paul Joseph Watson.[1 14] and the UK-based editor of Alex Jones' far-right conspiracy website Infowars where he advocated for the New World Order among others.[1 15]

In series on the November 2020, election, National Observer's Emma Graney provided a synopsis of QAnon in Canada, saying that the conspiracy theory, which is "unsubstantiated and untethered to reality", is an "unfortunate cultural import from the United States" that has been present since October 2017.[1 16]

The July 2020 Rideau Hall attack targeting Prime Minister Trudeau, was undertaken by a QAnon adherent[1 17]—Trudeau is included among the global elites. An October 29, 2020 article by Snopes, a well-regarded fact-checking website,[1 18] traced the origins of a chain email posted on conspiracy forums from a member of a non-existent committee within the Liberal Party of Canada that leaked Canada's secret "COVID Global Reset Plan", to the QAnon-dedicated "Q Research" board on 8kun.[1 19]

By Monday November 17, 2020, a short video of Trudeau's speech in which he described key points of the concept of an economic "reset" had gone viral,[1 2] as it reigniting fervor over the Great Reset conspiracy theory that had taken on a new life with the launching of the forum in May.[1 20] By November 2020, Canadian conservative political commentators such as Ezra Levant and politician Maxime Bernier, who lamented on his webpage on November 17 that he was the only Canadian politician speaking up against the globalist threat with Trudeau as the "world's most prominent defender" of this Great Reset,[1 1][1 9][1 10] along with Pierre Poilievre, an MP,[1 21] were cited in the media for criticizing Trudeau's speech. They claimed the rhetoric resembled that of the Great Reset conspiracy.[1 7] When Poilievre circulated a petition to "Stop the Reset", Le Devoir headlined an article saying that the Conservative Party was embracing conspiracy theories.[1 7][1 20] The Toronto Star editorial board criticized Poilievre for "giving oxygen" to the baseless conspiracy theory,[1 22] with some suggesting his post was related to a possible federal election.[1 9][1 7][Notes 1]

Notes
  1. Prime Minister Trudeau's use of the term "reset" was interpreted by conspiracy theorists as evidence of a great reset conspiracy that they had been predicting for months. Archived 2020-11-20 at the Wayback Machine Polievre was repeating the messaging of conspiracy theorists that included the controversial petition Archived 2020-12-16 at the Wayback Machine written by Archbishop, Carlo Maria Viganò and spread in the conservative Catholic community—including "CatholicVote", an organization that supported Trump's re-election—alleged that "disproportionate and unjustifiable" Covid-19 restrictions were part of plot in which "foreign powers" and "shady business interests" were planning on using "subtle forms of dictatorship" with the ultimate goal of forming "a world government." Sections of this letter were included in an article by the The Spectator columnist, James Delingpole—a key proponent of the great reset conspiracy theory Archived 2020-12-20 at the Wayback Machine—a version of the anti-lockdown conspiracy. Conspiracy theorists see a connection between a 2016 WEF blog by a young Danish MP, describing a scenario for 2030 Archived 2021-02-01 at the Wayback Machine, and Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign's "Build Back Better", as well as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's September 29, 2020 6-minute address to the UN General Assembly, in which he said "This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset. Archived 2021-01-15 at the Wayback Machine This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty inequality and climate change." They alleged without evidence that "global financial elites" and world leaders have planned a pandemic, deliberately letting loose the coronavirus to cause the conditions that will allow a restructuring of the world's governments. Conspiracy theorists claim that such a regime would abolish personal ownership and property rights, send the military into cities, impose mandatory vaccination, and create isolation camps for people who resist. — Evon, Dan (October 29, 2020). "Was Canada's Draconian COVID 'Global Reset Plan' Leaked to the Public?". Snopes. Archived from the original on February 4, 2021. Retrieved November 21, 2020. - Goforth, Claire (November 16, 2020). "Trudeau speech reignites conspiracy theory fervor over 'Great Reset'". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on November 16, 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2020. In some variations of the theory, then-US President Donald Trump was the only world leader keeping the scheme from happening, based on a video from August 2020 which has been viewed over three million times. According to the BBC, flaws with the conspiracy theory include that the WEF lacks authority to tell countries what to do. The BBC Archived 2020-11-22 at the Wayback Machine has also indicated that proponents of the conspiracy theory claim, without evidence, that politicians planned the COVID-19 pandemic, or that they are using the COVID-19 pandemic to destroy the global market-based economy.

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