Business drives the global economy like never before. Trillions of dollars flow around the world as businesses, large and small, meet the growing needs of people everywhere. Business, in all its manifestations, has an enormous, almost overwhelming, impact on every facet of life on Earth, and one of its greatest impacts is on the natural world. Global climate change, acid rain, deforestation, overfishing of the oceans, air and water pollution—all of these serious problems are negatively affected by how it is that we humans go about our business. And, in turn, the impacts of many of these environmental issues are growing at increasingly exponential rates—from deforestation to overfishing the oceans to fresh water shortages to loss of biodiversity to concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere.
If we have any hope of solving the profound problems that will confront humanity in the next few decades, our collective solutions will also need to grow at exponential rates. For that to happen, humanity will need to enlist every possible source of assistance. Chief among these is the sector that employs the most people, uses the most technology, has the greatest impact on the natural world, and is at the very heart of many of the environmental troubles we collectively face the business sector—including heavy and light industry, high and low tech businesses, ancient and cutting-edge businesses, and the enormous businesses of forestry, farming, fishing, and extraction of oil, gas, and minerals.
Each and every one of these types of businesses can begin to examine its own powerful impact on our fragile planet and begin to develop new plans, methods, policies, and means to insure that all business—including yours, whatever it may be —is actively engaged in creating a better and, ultimately, sustainable world. Thousands of businesses around the world have already discovered that, instead of aggravating and intensifying the profound problems that humanity faces, business can become an integral part of the solution—and in doing so, become an enormous force for positive change.
If we have any hope of solving the profound problems that will confront humanity in the next few decades, our collective solutions will also need to grow at exponential rates. For that to happen, humanity will need to enlist every possible source of assistance. Chief among these is the sector that employs the most people, uses the most technology, has the greatest impact on the natural world, and is at the very heart of many of the environmental troubles we collectively face the business sector—including heavy and light industry, high and low tech businesses, ancient and cutting-edge businesses, and the enormous businesses of forestry, farming, fishing, and extraction of oil, gas, and minerals.
Each and every one of these types of businesses can begin to examine its own powerful impact on our fragile planet and begin to develop new plans, methods, policies, and means to insure that all business—including yours, whatever it may be —is actively engaged in creating a better and, ultimately, sustainable world. Thousands of businesses around the world have already discovered that, instead of aggravating and intensifying the profound problems that humanity faces, business can become an integral part of the solution—and in doing so, become an enormous force for positive change.
Great idea Dan!! I'm excited to follow this as a newly employeed person!
ReplyDelete