Reprinted with permission from Freedom Times
(CBS/AP 6/6/12) RIO DE JANEIRO - A United Nations report
warns that the earth's environmental systems "are being pushed towards
their biophysical limits" and that sudden, irreversible and potentially
catastrophic changes are looming.
An Indian boy looks for reusable material in the polluted
waters of the Yamuna River in New Delhi, India, Sunday, April 22, 2012. (AP
Photo)
What has been missing this last half century of Humanities efforts?
....................................................................Whose Outcome is this:
When are we going to question our short sighted concept of Energy?
The promise of energy for everyone
will open the doors to Dream of a Nation's goals and David Korten's Living Economies with a surety and ease impossible to imagine now.
While Paul Hawken's 'diversity' in the largest movement on earth, is a natural, inherent phenomena, so is 'mobilize' when a threat has become sufficiently large to endanger a community, a species, or life on earth.
The solutions have been available since the 1940's:
What one should bear in mind is a mobilization component available when danger threatens a large system, with the mobilization degree corresponding to the degree of danger.
Humanity has two such high degree threats:
·
The Economy of Greed and
Dominion
·
Energy Stagnation
Both
of these threats support and cause the other.
Both of these threats have solutions
When a raging forest fire threatens a village, it becomes time for "diversity' TO ACT IN COHESION ON THE FIRE THREAT, and take care of the leaking faucet later
Both of these threats have solutions
When a raging forest fire threatens a village, it becomes time for "diversity' TO ACT IN COHESION ON THE FIRE THREAT, and take care of the leaking faucet later
Priorities efforts require a much broader support level:
Willis Harman, PhD (1919-1997)
who was a visionary thinker, futurist and social scientist who continuously
articulated the possibility for humankind to transcend the limits of out-moded
thinking. He was the author of several books including Creative Work: The
Constructive Role of Business in a Transforming Society (with John
Hormann), An Incomplete Guide to the Future, and Global
Mind Change. He was co-editor of The New Business of Business:
Sharing Responsibility for a Positive Global Future (with Maya Porter). He
was also co-founder of the World Business Academy (1988), president
of Institute of Noetic Sciences from 1973 until late 1996, a social
scientist and futurist with SRI International in the late 1960s and
early 1970s, and a professor at Stanford University prior to these other
affiliations. This award honors organizations who are living examples of Willis
Harman’s vision that business will play a major role in transforming social
consciousness."
The World Business Academy and
The Kellogg School of Management present
The 2006 Global MindChange Forum
As we approach this
year's Forum we are mindful that within every impending crisis there is
exciting opportunity.
A focus on the crises
reveals that:
Our world is fracturing at a rapidly accelerating pace.
- The institutions (government, religion, academe) that
we have trusted in the past to lead us through these crises are
increasingly less-capable of taking effective action.
- While there are seeds of change emerging, there is deep
concern that the shifts required in consciousness and action may not come
in time to prevent a descent into economic, societal and environmental
chaos.
A focus on the
opportunities reveals that:
The power of individuals joining together in communities of thoughtful and purposeful action around their area of expertise is essential for lasting and constructive change.
- Business men and women constitute such a community
which, because of its international reach, has the highest potential to
make effective change.
- Those who want to be agents in promoting effective
change benefit by gathering periodically to discuss the critical issues,
contribute their expertise to the effort to create solutions, and set
plans to put those solutions into practice.
- The future success of every enterprise will be
determined by its own leadership. In turn, the leaders' success depends on
their ability to grasp today's fundamental challenges and to approach them
with a commitment to a new level of excellence, as well as dispassionate
judgment, broad thinking, and innovation.