I believe that in times of economical and
ecological crisis like the one we're going through at the moment, it is important to get together and think positively about the future of business.
Not exact matches
To me, the core impulse behind this movement is the feeling among young people all over the world that the future doesn't compute, that their lives will be full of
ecological, political and financial
crises, and that they will never have a life
like their parents did.
He begins with the now - familiar thesis that the planet is in
ecological crisis due to human rapaciousness, advances his theological revisionism as essential to the cure, and ends with the dire warning that unless a program
like his is adopted it will be seen soon enough that «Christian theology is ecologically bankrupt.»
I would
like to name two significant problems for which neither has yet been able to find a satisfactory solution: the impoverishment of the Third World not only through capitalistic but also through socialistic forms of exploitation; and, the
ecological crisis.
Why does the list not include economists
like Amartya Sen of Harvard University, also a Nobel prize winning economist whose career is devoted to promoting well - being particularly among the world's poor (he had an op - ed a couple of days ago in the NY Times re: the food
crisis); or Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University, also a former World Bank chief economist and Nobel prize winner who is critical of the globalized free market apparatus run by the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO; or Herman Daley of the University of Maryland, also a former economist at the World Bank whose career is devoted to developing a sustainable economy within the
ecological constraints of our environment.
But wouldn't it be better to make the economic and
ecological crises that we face the subject of political debate, rather than appoint people
like Turner to make «expert» decisions.