Two thoughts on politics

July 29th, 2006
by Cleve

Thought #1
Of all the valuable messages from Marjora Carter’s TED presentation on her urban “green development” project (discussed here), my favorite line is this one:

I do not expect individuals, corporations, or government to make the world a better place because it is right or moral…I know it’s the bottom line or one’s perception of it that motivates people in the end. I’m interested in what I like to call the triple bottom line that sustainable development can produce, developments that have the potential to create positive returns for all concerned: the developers, government, and the community.

Tom Friedman (author of The World is Flat, which is required reading for BE professionals) said the same thing on a Sunday talkshow last week, that Green means global competitive advantage, and it’s in our best economic interest to get serious and innovative about the environment.

Thought #2
Via Arts and Letters Daily, “The collapse of the Doha Round is a matter of evil and idiocy, a case of outrageous incompetence, so bad that it verges on criminality” …as another example of unadulterated hypocrisy by the US and EU governments, this one can’t be beat.

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