Toward a new paradigm
I ran across the following while preparing for the University Diversity Council (EMU) retreat and doing a web search for the term "most significant environmental challenges."
Congressional Testimony: China's Environmental Challenges
Author: Elizabeth C. Economy , C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies, House International Affairs Committee. The article links the environmental devastation currently taking place in China in the wake of its economic boom with changing U.S. weather patterns. One cannot possibly fail to recognize the connection between the outmoded values of capitalism and imperialism that have led us down a perilous path to the brink of global ruin.
Our only hope is a global society based on the values of inclusion and access. We can no longer afford to view the human enterprise as a zero-sum game. If everyone doesn't win we will all most certainly lose.
Comments
Yes, we will ALL lose if we don't allow everyone to become "winners." We must allow everyone into the "in" crowd and get rid of the notion of the "out" crowd altogether. Yes, yes, YES!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Terri | November 9, 2006 12:11 PM