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Leadership and 'Earth' : Environmental Leadership,
Balance Emphasized
Brussels, 20 February 2006
In
the past twelve months a series of informal meetings was held in Brussels,
during
which a number of corporate executives; officials of the European Union
(EU); and Prof. Bal, executive director of the Graduate School,
exchanged viewpoints. The highlights of the meetings and interviews
include, once again, key issues that need to be faced very urgently,
today, for tomorrow's society. Dependency, by an exponentially
increasing world population, on natural resources that include food,
shelter materials, many forms of energy, certain medications; and
transportation, emerged as the key challenge. To the brief report that
was circulated to the members of the informal panel, Prof. Bal added:
"many resources that we delve, mine, log, transform... are
inappropriately called resources - they are non-renewable since they
cannot resource themselves by themselves. The true 'resources' better be
coined 'renewables'. The other ones we should perhaps call 'unreplacables'.
On the subject of forestry, for instance, the speed at which trees are
felled in some regions of the world generates nothing more than barren
fields. The fact that some of those newly created fields are transformed
into areas of intensive agriculture and production of commodities for
mass export, causes a competitive imbalance in another part of the world
where a similar commodity is produced. "One man's gain is often
another man's loss (...) on a worldwide scale these revenue-shifts are
dramatic, leaving far too many people uprooted, and they occur
increasingly faster", noted Prof. Bal. "Leaders should
focus on the survival of the whole world, by transcending the drive for
survival of the fittest" is the statement he has been repeating
time and over again in the past years. "Our anxieties we better
start facing today -- rather than the hear-no, see-no, or speak-no type
of attitude that leaves the next generations with yet another series of
poisoned gifts --; that is what I call leadership, being one's own
responsible leader to start with", statements that leave many
reflecting on the inescapable challenges lying ahead in their lives,
jobs, and in our 21st century in general.
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